Painting from vintage black and white family photographs and slides images of Americana from 1950 -1970. I compose these photos into my own "memory" to produce a nostalgic glimpse of life as i remember it.  I am influenced by many other artists such as Edward Hopper, Robert Bechtel, and Edward Ruscha who used roadside landscape vernacular to document the "vanishing of the middle class".

 In my paintings i.  want to take the viewer to a bygone era when the simplicity of life mattered.  When cell phones did not exist, and people engaged in conversations with each other at the local mom and pop business, the corner cafe, or just took the weekend off to go fishing. As a native to ,Lafayette, Louisiana, the landscape, the enjoyment of having coffee at Cafe Du Monde, and fishing in the bayous and piers are visually important themes. My creole family background and Texas upbringing  merge to make me the painter i am today.