Rick is an artist who paints and carves portraits of people and draft horses in a pleine e air realist style. His vision captures the essence of an individual's personality and is reflected back to us in a true to life likeness painted on canvas, on watercolor paper or carved in wood.

On location Rick's brush touches the paper and the ground trembles. The ground literally shakes as draft horses pass in front of Rick as he observes them poised with his watercolors and sketch pad.

In his studio an individual's likeness emerges in a portrait as Rick identifies the unique anatomical qualities that are different yet common to all human beings.

The degree of realism with which Rick carves a figure or equine images seems to transform the warmth of wood into an entity with soul.