I work from life. I studied painting and drawing at the University of Michigan where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting. I also pursued interests in
printmaking, ceramics, photography, and computer graphics. After receiving a Master of
Science and Doctor of Education degrees from Syracuse University and teaching for 34
years I am recalibrating back to the studio where I work in acrylics and digital
photography. My creativity is self -disciplined, guided largely by personal visual
statements expressed permanently through the use of a variety of media in paint and
print. My art provides a vehicle to summarize and document an experience, a visual
journal. For example, the series of paintings I did as a response to lengthy travel in
nearly all 50 States but especially to the beaches of North Carolina, the rocks and sky of
Sedona, Arizona, the canals of Venice, Italy, and Suzhou, China. Diversions include
trains and the prairies of North Dakota. My art poses a way for me to share an aspect of a
story through what I saw and felt, and lived. In a sense they are autobiographical – a
portrait without the person. I work from life.

When not painting or shooting images I work with my wife in her studio where
she is a jewelry designer. There I cut cabochons – taking raw rough semi-precious gem
stones and cutting and polishing them prior to their becoming wearable art forms.