"Painting and sketching have been my passion and my refuge for most of my life. On the tactile level, there's the physical pleasure in squishing paint on a canvas or moving a pencil or pen across paper, especially if it means actually working out in the countryside. More than that, I feel a need to represent life's beauties – nature, the human form and the human spirit confronting good and bad.

"My love of the arts was awakened early in life. As a child, my family's home was filled with art and music, and I studied violin and the arts in private and group classes. During my professional career as a journalist, corporate executive and marketing consultant, I always found time to continue my studies of painting and to sketch and paint the Normandy countryside in France."

Artistic Training

1976-1979, Workshop in oil painting, Conservatoire des Arts Plastiques, Fresnes, France, with Prof. Creuseau, former with Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris

1981-1983, Classes in drawing, oil and water color painting, Art Students' League, New York, NY

1995, Summer Workshop, water colors, Les Arts en Granite Rose, Tregastel, Brittany, France, with Jeannick LeVoyer

1996-1997, Summer workshops, water colors, La Voilerie, Saint Aubin-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, with Dominique Sevestre

2001-2004, Oil painting classes at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, with Frances Galante and Don Kaiser