A graduate of Denver Institute of Technology and the Rocky Mountain School of Art, Cliff has been painting and illustrating since 1980 when he graduated from RMSA. He is affiliated with many Colorado art organizations including the Pastel Society of Colorado, the Plein Air Artists Colorado, the Oil Painters of America and the American Impressionists Society. After many years working in the corporate field and in design studios, the love of landscape painting never diminished. The core of Cliff’s art is the relationships of light on shape using line and tone and color as it wraps and flows around the landscape and cityscape. Cliff has won many awards in Pastel and Oil in national and local art shows.

Artist’s Statement:
"The subject is light and contrast. The fascination is in the way light pours, splashes, and wraps around everything we see and contrasts the everyday with the extraordinary."