I fell in love with paint and making marks in Life Drawing art classes at the University of Michigan.
Mignonette Yin Cheng required we work quickly and use all of our media. Teacher and surrealist
Gerome Kamrowski challenged art boundaries and surprised me with "maybe you are a painter."

Next, the University of Wisconsin graduate program invited contemporary artists to work
in our art studios. I could watch Wayne Thiebaud create his colorful, impasto paintings.

MFA in hand, I left for Greece and Crete, first in Amsterdam and Belgium to study
Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Vermeer. Back in Madison I exhibited sculpture at the Madison
and Kohler Art Centers.

In a few years, I bought land in northern Wisconsin, later settling close to Lake Superior.
The Wisconsin light and landscape around my home inspired over 10 years of painting that
were exhibited in Madison, Duluth, Chicago and New York.

Returning to Michigan, the fields and orchards near my home recently inspired a landscape
series. Artists Bonnard, Wolf Kahn, John Twachtman, Albert P. Ryder, and George Innes
continue to challenge my vision and technique.

I grew up near Lake Michigan, lived near Lake Superior, and now study the powerful ocean
along Long Island, NY. My current work is all about Water. Knife, brush and paint meet
the canvas - I watch and follow along as color and marks summon the Sea.