I am inspired by the idea of place: of defining a space with a sensitivity that can transform, celebrate, and engage the redemptive qualities of metaphor for the profoundly personal and communal in people’s lives.

Whether I am designing in Photoshop or painting a watercolor, the idea of light as source comes through. It’s the light coming from behind the pixels or the paper—or with stained glass, how light is transformed, transmuted, and collimated into colors so beautiful—you become witness to an incarnation of the material before your eyes.

I teach painting and drawing at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where I live with my family. I serve on the board of the Association of Consultants for Liturgical Space.