Born: 1951, Oakland, California

Exhibitions: 2002 - Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Members Show, Canyonlands Vista

2000 - 2002 – Sawtooth Botanical Gardens Annual Show – participating artist

Education: Art Major through High School

Three years of college – University of New Hampshire, Pasadena City College

Won two semester scholarships to attend Otis Art Institute

Won one semester scholarship to attend Chouinard Art Institute, now known as California Institute of the Arts

1976 - 1983 attended courses on different media through the Laguna Beach School of Art, now known as Art Institute of Southern California

1989 - 1992 Figurative studies with Milford Zornes

1999 - 2000 Formal and informal studies with Jennifer Bellinger

2000 – 2002 Formal and informal studies with Barbara Mckee

2000 Landscape workshop with Ken Auster

Membership: 2002 – Laguna Plein Air Painters Association

2002 – Painting Member, California Art Society

Artist Statement

Ten years ago my needs to express myself artistically began to move seriously towards landscape and still life painting. Traveling presented a challenge in both time and media to this pursuit. At first black and white photography was fulfilling, followed by sketchbooks with colored pencils water colors. It all had to be fast. I came to realize how all-consuming and challenging capturing the beauty of the great outdoors was.

Living in and traveling to beautiful places has given me an endless source of inspiration: the natural world. Painting Plein air in oil has not only brought me to yet a new threshold in expressing the natural beauty I see, but also restores me. The great and endless challenges of attempting to accurately capture the outdoors with its infinite and dramatic variations of shape, color, permeating light; in addition to the effects of distance are the obstacles which, as an artist, I am grateful for.