Photography has been part of my visual language for as long as I can remember. I grew up with a camera in my hand—from Polaroids to film, darkrooms, and eventually digital photography. Perhaps there is something in the family history as well. My cousin, Wallace Nutting, became known for transforming his photographs through hand-applied color. Generations later, I find myself doing something strangely related—only with the tools and possibilities of the digital age. Whether artistic tendencies travel through a family tree is impossible to know, but I like the mystery of it.
My work begins with photography, drawing, and collected imagery that I manipulate, colorize, layer, and reconstruct digitally. I then bring those compositions into the physical world through printmaking, image transfer, acrylic painting, and mixed-media processes. The photograph is rarely the final image; it becomes raw material for something new.
Much of the imagery in my work comes directly from the different worlds I have inhabited. Growing up in the Northeast and spending years teaching skiing and snowboarding gave me an intimate connection to mountain and ski culture—not simply as imagery, but as a way of life. Nearly two decades of dividing my time between the American West and the Southeast added very different visual languages: the mythology, independence, landscape, and sporting culture of the West alongside the light, water, color, architecture, and social rhythms of Florida and the South.
Travel has expanded that perspective even further. Through extensive travel and immersion in different cultures, landscapes, and communities, I became increasingly interested in what separates us visually and culturally, but also in what connects us as human beings. Place matters deeply in my work, yet I am equally interested in the common threads that move across geography, generations, and cultures.
Film, photography, advertising, and magazine culture are another part of my visual vocabulary. I am fascinated by the images we collectively recognize—the movie star, the athlete, the automobile, fashion, sporting life, and other icons that become embedded in our memories. I borrow from this familiar language and rearrange it, allowing nostalgia and contemporary culture to collide with my own experiences of place.
I earned a B.S. from the University of Vermont and later studied Graphic Design and Fine Art at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. My work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and juried exhibitions across the United States, has received gallery and art-show awards, and has been featured in books, magazines, and newspapers. I am represented by galleries throughout the U.S., with work held in private collections nationally and internationally.
Ultimately, I am interested in taking familiar imagery and allowing it to become unfamiliar again—reworking photography, memory, color, place, and cultural references into contemporary paintings that are distinctly my own while remaining connected to a larger human story.
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