My work explores the architecture of nature and man’s place within it.  I provide information for both the right and left brains to process and absorb; pictorial imagery for the right brain, symbols and pattern for the left, all of which point to the true nature of this world, and man’s part as observant consciousness within it.

My first memory is of painting- at three years old. I’ve practiced painting and drawing all my life, and in 1990 earned a BFA, with honors, from the Studio Research department of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

 I then spent several yearstraveling- living on the streets of San Francisco in a VW bus, meeting the Dalai Lama while visiting India, working in Paris, where I made a living as a fashion model and absorbed art and spirit in the cathedrals and museums in my spare time.

I returned to my childhood home of upstate New York in 1997 in search of a more closely knit community of family and friends.   I have spent the last ten years honing my painting skills and clarifying my vision as an artist, exhibiting in solo and group shows in galleries and museums throughout New York State.   I have received both regional and national grants and awards for my work, including the National Grand Prize Liquitex Excellence in Art Purchase Award in 2001, a LARAC individual Artist Grant in 2007, and most recently, the first prize painting award for the Saratoga Art in the Park 2008.

 I am currently employed as a scenic painter by Adirondack Studios.