Our art business began in the suburbs of Chicago in 2000 when Steve decided to start painting and selling at art festivals. Twenty odd years and 800 art fairs later, we now live in St Augustine, FL and have a summer studio in Woodstock, IL.

We continue to do 30+ art festivals a year and have a vision of slowing down at some point but have not as of yet. We have done many shows now for 10 years or more, but each year we try to do 2-3 new shows we have never tried in cities or places we have never been. Most shows will have the two of us with the paintings and the prairie grass art next to each other, but every year there are a few shows where just one of us is invited to participate. Every show we do is juried and invitation only, we apply to roughly 100 shows per year, get invited to 50 and attend 30.

Color, geometry and motion are the driving element s in my paintings. I paint a wide variety of subjects including florals, landscapes, seascapes and more. All my work is done with acrylic of canvas using palette knife. I’ve had no formal training other than a couple art electives while getting a business degree at the University of Illinois. My father was an architect and I grew up around drawing, sketching, design and composition from his work. I have always loved art, it just never occurred to me that I could make a living with it.

The Prairie Grass art is something we developed because we wanted to make abstracts that were three dimensional, colorful and interesting. We brought the prairie grass art out to sell in 2003. We continue to harvest the reeds every fall near our home in Illinois.