I was always an artist.
Art was there before I ever thought of it as a career.
Where it began.
My mother recognized that I had a natural ability when I was young and, fortunately, one of her closest friends was an artist named George Kaiser. At the time, George was teaching art out of his parents’ basement. That small school would eventually become the George Kaiser School of Art.
George has since passed, but his influence continues through the many people he taught—and through the work I create today. Spirit Hawk Creative is, in part, a tribute to him.
By fourteen, I had been inducted into the National Art Honor Society, and from there I found ways to make art wherever I could. I drew, painted, designed tattoos that people still wear today and, during a slightly more rebellious chapter, may have occasionally treated a wall or two as a canvas.
“These days, fortunately, people hire me to paint the walls.”
Creativity, caged.
Like many artists, I eventually took a more conventional path.
I built a career in marketing, branding, strategy, and creative direction, and much of my creativity moved from paint to pixels. I spent years designing within brand standards, corporate expectations, and carefully defined boundaries.
There is tremendous value in discipline and strategy—but creativity that is constantly asked to stay inside the lines can begin to feel caged.
In 2016, I tried to leave corporate life and return to art. I opened an art studio, exhibited in shows, sold hundreds of original fluid and resin artworks, and completed residential and commercial interior murals.
Fear eventually pulled me back into the corporate world.
For two more years, I served as the head of marketing for a manufacturing company. Then, during the height of the pandemic, the company was sold and my position disappeared.
The first place I went back to was art.
And this time, I stayed.
Becoming Spirit Hawk Creative.
What began as a return to painting has continued to evolve—through murals, commissioned fine art, decorative painting, specialty finishes, and large-scale creative work—into Spirit Hawk Creative.
The hawk has long been a personal symbol for me. It represents perspective: the ability to rise above something, see the larger landscape, notice what others may miss, and discern where to focus.
That idea lives inside the work I create.
The Spirit Hawk logo combines the hawk with imagery inspired by humanity’s earliest artistic expression. Long before galleries, brands, software, or algorithms, human beings were making marks on walls.
We painted. We told stories. We left evidence that we were here.
That impulse is timeless.
Keeping creativity human.
Spirit Hawk Creative is built around a simple belief:
Human creativity matters.
Technology can do extraordinary things, but I believe there are places where the human hand, imagination, imperfection, intuition, and lived experience should remain at the center—particularly in art, poetry, and music.
Art is not only an image. It is evidence of a person having been there.
Every mural, painting, and decorative surface I create carries that human imprint.
Spirit Hawk Creative is both a continuation of what George Kaiser gave to me decades ago and my contribution to keeping that tradition alive for whatever comes next.
Create > Consume.
