I won some really cool awards.
My day job has kept me employed in healthcare marketing for 10 years and when I started as a graphic designer I honestly wanted just that…to have a steady job. Within those 10 years my layouts, concepts, designs and campaigns have won numerous healthcare marketing awards. In 2023 I decided to broaden my reach and submitted work to the Hermes Creative Awards. I submitted a campaign I developed for Primary Care and I submitted the magazine I created (Both for my day job at WVU Medicine Camden Clark).
The Primary Care campaign won Platinum and the Magazine won gold. **pats self on back**
I’m also making
new personal work.
I have a new body of work. In making it I accept that, as I get older, memories of my youth fade. I find unparalleled joy in overwriting fresh experiences—a shared history between myself and my son—on top of earlier, blurry, abstracted memories. I’m grateful for this series of work. It lets me patch together the layers of our story as it unfolds.
I’m super excited to have my work featured in Studio Visit Magazine, Volume Forty-nine. For the first time in a very long time I’m making work that is just for me. It feels real good. It also feels good to have validation in being published. My self-esteem needed that.
I’m figuring out who I am again. It’s so fluid, I know. I get it. But still.
Above from left to right: My memory is a worm on Beauty Mountain; 80-HD Don't Fail Me Now OR My memory is 11 first cousins on Lipps Road; My memory is a magentaraffe and four flowers in Greenbrier County; My memory is an inter-dimensional demond at the state fair; My version of how Dav Pilkey changed our lives at the New River Gorge Bridge (Tourist view); My memory is finding serenity on the Greenbrier River with my family, Schmebulock, and rainbows.
All Digital Media and Hand-Drawn Digital Painting of various dimensions. 2021-2022
Otherwise...
Otherwise, what you’ll see here is a small collection of some of my favorite work from the past few years—Digital photography, digital illustration, ink drawings on paper, acrylic on canvas, acrylic on paper.
My work is at it’s best when I can interject a bit of humor. A bit of lightness. A smile, a recognition of a feeling, or a quick one-liner can go a long way toward endearing a message to the viewer.
