About

I am a Passion Driven painter. Essentially I am a fanatic for magical light which colors the world, if only for brief moments, with a powerful message of hope and serenity. While much of my work is done on location, my studio has now become my refuge from the craziness of our world these days. My aim is to transport the viewer to another dimension; to conjure up a sweet memory or take a journey into their imagination.

Here I am (gold shirt) at my "Day Job" directing Sports TV for NBC. Sometimes I feel torn between the worlds.  

(Pastel by Brad Faegre)

So how did this all begin?

On a traumatic 50th birthday in 2000, my wife Cathy, an art teacher, bought me a set of watercolors and we jumped off Zabriskie Point in Death Valley for an afternoon of painting. I had never picked up a brush in my previous half century; grammar school and finger painting aside.

In Death Valley a new passion blossomed. 

It has now been 20 years since I have taken up the brush. As a fledgling artist I began experimenting with watercolors, pastels, acrylics and, later, oils. My principal teachers are a varied group: Ray Roberts, Lorenzo Chavez and Jill Carver.

But a career in Sports Television took priority. My Day Job is necessary and fulfilling but painting has become my true passion. 

Winner of 14 Sports Emmy awards, I am currently a Senior Producer and Director of the Olympics for NBC. I have produced and directed such events as the Kentucky Derby, the NFL, Notre Dame football, the Olympic Games from 1992-2018, the Closing Ceremony of the Athens and Beijing Olympics, the World Figure Skating Championships, the Tour de France, Ironman Triathlon and dozens of major sports events.

As a Documentary producer and director I have done films on Elizabeth Smart, Ted Turner, Warren Jeffs, Mike Tyson, Mary Kay Letourneau, Oksana Baiul, the Sydney Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Par

alympics as well as over a hundred profile stories of Olympic athletes since 1979. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. I am a 1971 graduate of the University of Denver.

One of my greatest honors was being chosen as a guest artist at the Maynard Dixon Country art show in Mt Carmel, Utah.