This is an abstraction of a blood smear turned floral. Two of my favorite PA students now have it in their home!

This piece was part of a commissioned series done for the SEAL conference room at Duke. It is a reproduction of a similar piece I did in greyscale, depicting a lung cancer in the top of the left lung.

This piece was part of a commissioned series done for the SEAL conference room at Duke. It is a reproduction of the first painting I ever sold and depicts a clogged artery. Eat your veggies!

This piece was part of a commissioned series done for the SEAL conference room at Duke. It is a reproduction of the original “Angels” and depicts alveoli, the functional unit of the lung.

This piece was part of a commissioned series done for the SEAL conference room at Duke. It depicts white blood cells, and is an homage to my dear colleague who bravely battled lymphoma and who continues to help hundreds of other people fighting cancer.

This is a painting of a sickled red blood cell (and two normal ones). Sickle cell crises are extremely painful, and the disease affects millions of people throughout the world.

Given my focus on oncology, and wanting to invoke positive thoughts of tumor death, I painted a brain metastasis getting radiated.

This is a penicillin mold that I painted after seeing an image in a medical journal. I loved the colors!

Alveoli - the small version.

This is the view from the mediastinoscope which is used in sampling or "picking" lymph nodes. I painted this for Dr. Mark Berry, hence, Berry Picking!

Pyramids-Kidneys!

This piece was commissioned by Duke PA Program to go in the lab. It’s a painting of… prepare... microscopy findings associated with three of the most common vaginal infections.

The hand surgeon who received Carpal Diem commissioned me to do a piece for his mentor. This is an end-on view of the radius and ulna.

This piece was commissioned by one of my surgeons, Dr. Betty Tong. She liked the Autumn Alveoli that Dr. Ceppa had purchased, but requested different colors

They are totally dancing!

A professor in PA school really liked this bacteria, so I made this as a gift

This is a painting of the thyroid cartilage, behind which the larynx or “voice box” sits. I was listening to The Old Ceremony when I started painting this. They and their single “Talk Straight” are favorites of mine.

It’s an ovary. O-vary. Get it?

Abstract version of an AV Malformation.

Another of of my earlier paintings; I painted this when we were studying Mitral Valve Prolapse.

This is an enlarged version of the carpal bones. This was a commissioned piece for a surgeon finishing his hand fellowship.

This piece was commissioned by a woman at the VA to hang in pre-op holding. It’s still one of my favorites.

This was my first medical painting. We were studying the function of alveoli in A&P, and this was sort of a study group distraction. I think it was my friend, Junior, who saw it one night and said, “You should just do stuff like that.” So, I did.

A smaller version of Dancing Dendrites that I did for a friend of mine.

Perhaps a commentary on the modern fast food diet; believe it or not, this was the first painting I ever sold. I sold it at the Durham Artwalk to a non-medical couple. Darius Quarles was there to take pictures of me freaking out about my first sale.

This piece was a commission for a pulmonologist who has done incredible work in the field of lung regeneration. The painting is an abstract version of the microscopy associated with the work.

Get it? Urine?

This is a series of red blood cells, from normal to fully infected with plasmodium falciparum. The parasite is transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito, so, I blame her. 

When I did this piece I was doing a lot of experimenting with mixing my own greens, so I decided to paint an inflamed gall bladder. Or, if that seems gross, then it's peas in a pod. A bit later, my friend had her gall bladder removed and kindly supported my business...