Photography is a starting point from where I branch into design and art .

I’ve been playing with photography and being a personal documentarian of my life from the time when I was eleven and I had an old Pentax 35 mm, enough money scraped together for rolls of film, photo chemicals and a dark room in the basement. I’ve worked and learned independently since and evolved in the mid-2000’s into the digital DSLR universe. Goodbye chemicals!

I learned printmaking beginning in the 70’s with intaglio and block prints. I later studied serigraphy at Carnegie-Mellon in the 80’s. I began to collaborate with other artists, most notably Lucio Pozzi and then many Native American artists, using screen printing (serigraphy). My first studio was in a stone building at the St Christopher’s Episcopal Mission in Bluff, Utah. Later in the 90’s I began to design book covers in Boulder and this gave me more experience with type fonts and design which I explored in combination with posterized and embellished photos. Eventually, I phased-out the screen printing part of my art because of the chemicals. Since then I’ve discovered the worlds of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom and on my radar, After Effects.

I started to play with my photos as postcards and posters while working at the Roosevelt Lodge in Yellowstone National Park in 2017. Tucked inside that location were corrals, horses, wranglers and lots of icons of the American west. The American west, and its history, its style and brand are a familiar mystery which I’m drawn to. I snapped photos at the stables, the saddle chutes and from onboard stages drawn by massive draft horses on my way to the cookouts to play some mandolin with the resident cowboy entertainer/singer. You’ll see some of the photos turned poster and prints on this website with additional photos from Yellowstone and other places and experiences I’ve been through.

Drop me a line if you have any questions or if you’d like to comment on my art.

Regards,

Mike