Photography

I started making movies in high school and taking photos when I was an architecture student at the University of Arkansas. I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design/Photography from California Institute of the Arts in 1976. After a few years working as a special effects technician in the film industry and as a photographer for a daily newspaper, I attended the Master of Arts screenwriting program at Stanford University, leading to twenty years in the videogame biz.

 

My current photographic practice mostly centers around architectural photography, travel, and work that supports my pastels and drawings.

Pastels & Coloured Pencil

A few years ago, inspired by my fellow artists at ConArt Gallery and Studios in Masterton, I began to teach myself pastel painting and coloured pencil drawing. Coming from photography, I find it both challenging and invigorating to feel the forms and colours coming directly from my hand to the paper. Sometimes I work from my photographs, and sometimes from my imagination.

Making Things

I like to get my hands dirty making things. In the 1970s I built custom special effects cameras in Hollywood, in the 1980s I developed robotic electronic toys in Silicon Valley, and over the following 20 years I designed and produced computer and video games for Hasbro, Disney, Electronic Arts and MGM. A few years ago I designed and built a wall-mounted stereo print viewer, and in 2025 I created a sculpture that was selected for Aratoi Museum's semi-annual Wairarapa Art Review. Although I spend lots of time in front of a computer, my workshop is my true happy place.