About

Here is the story of how I came to dress up dining rooms, colorwash bedrooms, and make kids' rooms into dreamlands.

I started painting decorative interiors a number of years ago while I was an Art History major in college. I apprenticed Barbara Campbell, who is well known in Providence and the Boston area for her creative interior painting and designs. While we worked in residences in Providence, Weston, Sudbury, Wellesley, Newton, and Natick, Barbara taught me various techniques and skills, ranging from building up layers of glazes, to combining colors harmoniously throughout a home. Most importantly, she taught me how to find a client's personal pallette, and to enhance these guidelines with my own knowledge of paint, color theory, and a little spontaneity, to make a perfect painted design.

I have since worked as a graphic designer, kept a painting studio, and gone back to school for my MFA in Painting, working on and off with Barbara all the while. After earning my MFA, I set up my own painting business. I still consult with my painting mentor frequently, but I have been working with my own clients since November, 2002.

In the summer of 2003, I formed a painting partnership called Four Hands with my friend Ben Chaffee. Ben is skilled in restoration and housepainting, and also happens to be in a rock band. We share resources, trade skills, and occasionally work together on larger jobs. If you live in Boston and would like your walls skillfully spruced, prepped and painted by someone who will listen to you and not leave dribbles of paint everywhere, I highly recommend you contact Ben.

Working as a decorative painter has been a wonderful way to support and develop my studio painting. Please visit the "portfolio" section of this website to see examples of recent work in I have done in and around Boston. All of these jobs fell somewhere between bringing a client's existing ideas to fruition, and bringing my own ideas to the table. Please contact me if you are interested in seeing a more extensive portfolio or setting up a consultation.