Caboose Tavern

Patterns and text and text as patterns. This mural explores color, typography and patterns in a disruptive nature that mirrors how our lives have been completely disrupted over the past couple of years yet we find new ways to come together and end up with something beautiful.

Tinner Hill Foundation

Painted this mural for the Tinner Hill Foundation and The Falls Church. This “Hope for Tomorrow” mural commemorates the survival of a local landmark, a blacksmith shop with a history that dates to antebellum Falls Church. Even more significantly, it features two men, one White and one Black, who operated that shop for a half century. The mural honors their success in running a successful business in the first half of the twentieth century and in establishing a bi-racial business partnership during the Jim Crow era. This mural is a testament to both men and to the continuing struggle for equality, justice, racial harmony, and respect.

Draper’s Restaurant

I created this selfie spot for Draper’s restaurant in Downtown Fairfax, VA. I wanted to create a welcoming spot for visitors and residents alike. It's eye-catching and playful and something we've all said to someone before. The goal was to contribute to the cultural soul of the city, to inspire people to visit Draper’s, visit Fairfax and to engage with the artwork.

Falls Church Police Department

I painted this mural in the Falls Church Police Department’s roll call room in 2021. It highlights several Falls Church landmarks, as well as focuses on a few specific symbols of the Falls Church Police Department. Incorporating a color scheme of mostly blues, representing the police force, and vibrant pops of color, this mural showcases the FCPD as one of Falls Church’s prominent community fixtures.

Dogwood Tavern

In 2018, I was hired by Dogwood Tavern to create a mural to capture a visual history of Broad St. in Falls Church, VA. The design highlights several landmarks over the past century. They wanted something colorful and bright to brighten up the back patio as well as coincide with the historical focus of the restaurant. The mural spotlights several businesses from West Broad St. to East Broad St. (left to right) and is laid over a map of the area with a star to mark Dogwood’s location on Broad St.

Bear Branch Tavern

I painted this mural for Bear Branch Tavern in early 2020 for the opening of their restaurant. It’s an image of the Battle of Vienna, Virginia during the early days of the American Civil War. The Battle occurred less than a mile from the location of their new restaurant. They wanted it to look like an old weathered document with just pops of color for the caboose and flag. The staining and washes on the background are more visible up close. I used a combination of hand painting and screen printing for this mural.

Caboose Commons

I painted this mural for Caboose Commons in 2020. Caboose wanted a more feminine, floral design for the women’s restroom. Originally, the thought was to do something smaller with simple linework, but I pitched a larger more colorful design with more coverage above the mirror and the client loved it. The amplified abstract flowers brighten the restroom and add dimension along with the exposed ceiling. Credit goes to Matt Riegner for the “you are beautiful” script seen in the mirror’s reflection, layering an additional positive experience for patrons.

Franconia Elementary School

In Spring 2021, I painted this mural for Franconia Elementary School that serves as a welcome wall and student memorial. Located prominently in the school’s lobby, the mural greets students and guests with patterns of color and spotlights the Franconia Elementary’s new mascot, as well as a diverse grouping of penguins that illustrate the ideals of being nurturing, welcoming, inclusive, with involvement and family. Complemented by core character traits, the mural helps to create a vibrant and inspirational environment representing Franconia Elementary School values.

Caboose Tavern

I painted this “Along The Trail” family restroom for Caboose Tavern in early 2020. The Tavern is located right on the W&OD trail in Vienna, Virginia. The idea was the W&OD Trail attracts a cast of characters from cyclists and joggers to families with dogs to foxes, deer, flora and fauna. With Caboose Tavern’s proximity to this popular connector, the mural in the family restroom celebrates Caboose Tavern as a Vienna destination for all that use the trail. The characters wrap around the restroom as a continuous line drawing.

Go Vote

Leading up to the Presidential election in 2020, neighbors of mine were cool enough to offer up their fence that runs along the highway so I could paint this mural. The idea was to help encourage people to get out and vote. I wanted to do something colorful that would pop as people drove by. It was done completely in spray chalk.

Kingston Parking Garage

I painted these botanical-inspired murals for Kingston McLean Crossing in 2018. They span 3 garage levels and total 9 separate murals. The custom floral elements were designed by Hickok Cole Architect’s creative team. The murals helped extend the community’s “everyday oasis” vibe to it's underground parking garage - bringing larger-than-life works of art to the most unlikely of spaces.

Deck Mural

In April 2019, I had a solo show “Torn” where I created an abstract body of work that focused on tearing apart the comfort zones that recognizable and organized patterns tend to create. I wanted to take this pattern disruption I had been working on and turn it into a mural as proof of concept that my abstract paintings could scale up. So I painted the back of my house.

Fairfax Mural Jam 2018

I was invited to participate in the City of Fairfax’s first ever mural jam. I was privileged to paint next to 13 other talented artists. The all day event was part of Fairfax’s Spotlight on the Arts and the goal was to help promote public art and murals within the city limits. The wood panels were 6’ x 8’. My piece was more of mixed media piece. I had screen printed the eyes and then wheat pasted them on the wood. It ended up raining at the end of the day and all the wood panels were moved inside.

Tinner Hill

In collaboration with the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, I created an 8’ x 12’ mixed media wheat paste piece for the Creative Cauldron. It was for their production of Tinner Hill: Portraits in Black and White, an original work for the stage that tells the story of the civil rights struggles of the residents of Tinner Hill, a Falls Church Virginia community located just miles from The White House.