My Mission

To paint scenes that offer the viewer a visual sensation conducive to calm reflection for healing and comfort, inspiration and hope, or simply, the enjoyment and awe of beauty. 

With a passion for the surreal, I also enjoy painting beyond the traditional realism, to depict scenes that suggest
an aura of the ideal and the imaginative. 

Photo: Sailing on the Margaret Todd, First Place, Cape Cod Art Center National Competition.

About me:

One of the first paintings that influenced me was John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark when my mother took me to the MFA at 8-years old. I was taken in by Copley’s rendering of the translucent ocean and decided right then that I wanted to learn how to paint like him. Growing up in Needham, I was lucky to have encouraging High School art teachers, but unfortunately was discouraged from art college by my parents who feared I would end up a “starving painter.” To get me through the agony of studying business at University of Lowell, I painted “self-taught” surrealism, then landed a job as a typesetter for a small graphic arts shop. Within a few months, they sent me back to art college at night to learn graphic design and commercial illustration — a gateway towards a lucrative 40-year career in Environmental/ Graphic Design; Corporate Art Consulting, and Commissioned Installation Artist for Children’s Hospital. I continued to paint in my spare time while raising a family and was first mentored under Robert Douglas Hunter, who introduced me to the Boston School of Painters, a methodology revival in the discipline of 19th-century French Academy that was established by R.H. Ives Gammell. I further trained in Gammell’s teaching under Nadia Mahfuz for 7 years, then continued with workshops under Sergio Roffo, Joseph McGurl, Thomas Dunlay, and David Curtis. Most recently, I learned portrait techniques of Rembrandt and the Dutch Masters under Eric Johnson of the Academy of Realist Art Boston; Portrait artist, Lois Wooley, of the Hudson River School influence, and the world-renowned genre painter, Hongnian Zhang, of the Beijing Academy of Art. 

I have been blessed to have the tutelage and mentoring of great painters and now enjoy my new retirement job of running an art school out of my home studio while exhibiting new paintings in local and regional competitions.

Memberships and Representation:

Resident Artist at The Painted Fox Art Gallery in Foxboro Center;
Elected Associate Artist of the American Artists Professional League, NY;
Juried Artist member of Oil Painters of America;
Juried Artist member of Cape Cod Art Center;
Member Dedham Art Association.