Biography

I have been working as an artist and teacher since the early 70’s. I began drawing and painting on my own while studying in Paris, and then continued until I took some courses, got a degree in art education, and later, a Masters in the area of printmaking and painting at the University of New York in Albany.

As I was leaving the masters program, I worked making murals through the City Arts Office of New York for several glorious years. I then worked as an adjunct, teaching fundamental drawing and figure drawing at what is now the Sage Colleges in Albany. Then during my 6 years as the Fine Arts mentor for Empire State College. I also taught several interdisciplinary courses. I was asked to do a residency of 10 weeks with students in Ticonderoga, and there began a 25 year career as an artist-in-education. Many large murals, and large mixed media and collaborative works later I decided to teach art part-time with adults who have traumatic brain injuries.

I am now painting and making art full-time.

My work is in many ways classical. Color, texture of the particular media I am working with, form and line work together. At times figurative, expressive, animated, and almost always about nature or about the joy of being out there, outside. I work with the familiar places and beloved places I know, and so in the past five years, have been looking and working much more about the forest and woods near me and now of the disappearing Florida landscapes.