EDUCATION

Formal:  University of Utah, 1986-1991, Bachelors of Fine Art with painting and drawing emphasis

Studied under Paul Davis, Dave Dornan, Tony Smith, Doug Snow & Ed Maryon.  Painting, drawing, figure and monoprints

AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS

2nd Place Eccles Miniature Show 2018

1st Place Oil, Dixie Sears Invitational 2017

Best of Show, Traces of the West - Eccles, 2016

Best of Show, Driggs Digs Plein Air, 2015

1st Place Quick Draw - People’s Choice, Drigg’s Digs Plein Air, 2015

2nd Place, Escalante Plein Air, 2015

1st Place, Traces of the West - Union Station - 2015

2nd Place, Wasatch Plein Air, July, 2014

”Best of Show,” Zion’s Plein Air Invitational, November, 2013

Guest Instructor at Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute, October, 2013

Participant in Door County Plein Air Invitational, Door County, Wisconsin July, 2013

3rd Place - Spring Salon - Springville Museum of Art for “Casual Conversation” May, 2013

Purchase Award from Ogden City Corporation of “Emergence” January, 2013

Recipient of Inaugural Davis County Art Exhibit, 2nd Place and Purchase Award with “Regards” November, 2012

Mayor’s Awards in the Arts Visual Arts Recipient October, 2012

2nd Place - Estes Park Quick Draw Competition, August, 2012

Featured Artist - Annual Eccles Art Auction, March, 2012

Zion’s Foundation Award of Excellence, Zion’s Plein Air Invitational, November, 2011

1st Place - Moab Quick Draw Competition, Moab, UT - October, 2011

3rd Place - Moab Plein Air Competition, Moab, UT - October 2011

1st Place - Wasatch Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT - July 2011

Purchase Award - Wasatch Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT - July 2011

1st Place - Ogden Plein Air Competition - June 2011

1st Place - Ogden Plein Air Quick Draw Competition - June 2011

Zion’s Plein Air Invitational - Purchase Award, November, 2010

2nd Place - Escalante Plein Air Competition, September, 2010

2nd Place - Estes Park Plein Air Competition, August, 2010

Mayor’s Choice Award, Estes Park Plein Air Competition, August, 2010

Director's Choice & 3rd Place - Estes Park Plein Air Competition, Estes Park, CO September, 2009

1st Place - Wasatch Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT July, 2009

1st Place - River Rocks Plein Air Competition, Idaho Falls, ID -            June, 2009

1st Place - Ogden Plein Air Quick Draw, June 2009

2nd Place - Helper Plein Air Competition, 2008

1st Place - Ogden Plein Air Competition, 2007

Honorable Mention - Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon, 2007

Merit Award - Plein Air New Mexico 2005

$5,000 Purchase Award - Deseret News, Color of the Land, 2005

1st Place Eccles Center Black & White Competition, 2004

Mayor’s Purchase Award - Art & Soup, 2004

1st Place - Vernal Plein Air Painting Competition, 2004

1st Place Purchase Award - Everett Ruess Plein Air Competition, 2004

3rd Place - Helper Plein Air Painting Competition, 2003

Honorable Mention - Deseret News Color of the Land, 2003

1st Place - Helper Plein Air Painting Competition, 2002

Honorable Mention - Deseret News Color of the Land, 2002

Honorable Mention - Plein Air Painting Competition, 2001

3rd Place - Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon, 1997

Honorable Mention - Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon - 1996

SHOWS / EXHIBITIONS

One Man Exhibition - Eccles Community Center, September 2017

Loge Gallery at Pioneer Memorial Theater, Two-Man Show with George Handrahan, February 2017

Terzian Gallery - February, 2014

One-Man Exhibition - Williams Fine Art - Holiday Show, November 15, 2012

Terzian Gallery - Two-Man Show with Lane Bennion - December, 2011

Earthwood Gallery - Boulder, CO - One-Person Exhibit (September, 2010)

Terzian Gallery - One Person Exhibit (February, 2010)

Idaho Falls Museum of Art, Two-Man Show with Brad Slaugh (October, 2009)

Rogoway Gallery, Tubac, AZ - Two-Man Show (November, 2008)

Terzian Gallery - One Person Exhibit (February, 2008)

Wilkerson Fine Art - One Person Exhibit (October, 2007)

Eccles Center – One Person Exhibition (June 2007)

Torrey Gallery – One Person Exhibition (June 2006)

Terzian Gallery – One Person Exhibition (February 2006)

Gallery at the Station, Ogden, UT - One Person Exhibit (October 2005)

Rogoway Gallery, Tubac, AZ One-Person Exhibit (February 2005)

Coda Gallery in Park City (2001 & 2004)

Wilkerson’s Art Center in Huntsville, UT - One-Person Exhibit (2002)

Phillips Gallery (2000)

Torrey Gallery (1999)

Boise State University - One Person Exhibit (1996)

PUBLICATIONS

Cover of Plein Air Magazine, November 2015

Feature Article in Plein Air Magazine, November 2015

Featured in Painters of Grand Teton National Park - inside front cover 2015

Featured in American Art Collector Magazine, April, 2012

Featured in American Art Collector Magazine, December 2011

Featured in Utah's Painters of Deserts and Canyons, 2009

Featured in American Art Collector Magazine, February 2008

Featured in Southwest Art Magazine, April 2007

Cover of Park City Magazine, Winter 2006 Issue

Feature Article in Southwest Art Magazine, November 2003

Cover of Springville Museum of Art 72nd Utah Spring Salon, May 1996