I am a self taught artist originally from Maine, but now living in Starkville, MS. I have worked at the Mississippi Entomological Museum as a researcher/scientific illustrator since 1988.

Throughout the last 30 years, I have continued to develop my own surrealistic drawing style, which I refer to as “Neogothic Surrealism” or “Subconscious Meandering.” I predominately work in black ink, using fine-tipped Koh-i-noor Rapidograph pens, but also do mixed media color works. My drawings are highly detailed, with many layers built up by crosshatching, stippling, and other methods. The structure of my artwork is predicated on the drawing of random shapes, after which I then draw shapes in the negative spaces created by the first shapes, and so forth. Subject matter is not a stumbling block because everywhere I look I see interesting things. For example, it is should be quite apparent that I work in entomology, as my art is often intermixed with various insectoid body parts. Similarly, it should be obvious that I have read a great deal of science fiction. All of my observations are thrown into my mind where they are intermixed with other memories, thoughts, and ideas. They are later expressed in random ways in my drawings. When I begin a drawing, I usually have no preconceived idea of what I am going to draw, other than at most a minimal idea or a basic shape. I typically do not do underlying pencil sketches, but instead start working directly with the pen or paint. This allows for more spontaneity and subconscious flow, which is the basis for all of my surreal art. My themes tend to be many-fold, as I do many types of artwork, but recent work centers on the interrelationship of the environment and all forms of the animate and inanimate.

Although my work at the Entomology Museum has focused on native and exotic ant research the last 10 years, I have done many illustrations of various insects including beetles, flies, wasps, ants, moths, grasshoppers, crickets, and other taxa, as well as many drawing of insect structures. Most of these illustrations were done using ink on un-inked scratchboard, but I have also done mixed media illustrations with watercolor and ink. Additionally, I have taken many photos of insects using SLR type cameras, cameras mounted on microscopes, and images using a Scanning Electron Microscope.