Gained national attention in solo exhibitions starting in 1982 at the Fischbach Gallery in New York City and the Joseph Gierek Fine Art Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Trained first with his mother and then studied at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa, where he received his BFA in 1974, followed by graduate studies in watercolor.
Awards include the National Endowment for the Arts; Season Poster, Metropolitan Opera Company; Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Award of Excellence; Liddy Doenges Individual Arts Award, Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa