When I was 15 years old my high school art teacher nominated me for the summer student program at the Museum School of Art in Boston Massachusetts.  I had never been to an art  museum and I can still recall how I felt walking through the galleries for the first time. Over the course of that summer I was drawn to Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, George Bellows and other American realists, who are still inspiring me today. I was introduced for the first time to figure drawing, painting in oils, sculpture and by the end of the summer I knew that I would be an artist.

After college I became an Illustrator and Graphic Designer, a career that still influences my work today, searching to tell a story in paint on canvas. I have been fascinated with the photorealists such as Richard Estes, Ralph Goings and Davis Cone  since the 1970’s and like them, use the camera image to create the final painting. My subjects are urban scenes, store fronts, signage, cars, the window reflections, rendered just as they are in the photograph. The final result is a window to a place where the viewer can make up their own story, a place to help people see the beauty in everyday scenes that are overlooked by most of us.

I am honored to have been an artist for most of my life, to share my work with  others’ and bring them into my world.