''Painting is like a road trip with the heart and the creative soul in the front seat and the brain as the back seat driver.''

    I love when light is  rich with drama and color so it accentuates  a moment in time and traces the underlying character of Maine.  It can happen while painting outdoors, painting in my studio  or while I'm prowling around Maine's uncommonly visited corners  with my camera.  Altho I have lived in many places Maine has always been home. It is my spiritual place, it cradles me, it never fails to challenge me and it continually inspires me to reach deeper into my creative being.





Professional Studies:



Moore College of Art - Philadelphia, PA

Portland College of Art  ( MECA )- Portland, ME

Scottsdale Artist School - Scottsdale, AZ

UMA - Augusta, ME

Private study - Francis Hook, E. Boothbay, ME;  David Leffel, Taos, NM;   Daniel Greene, Scottsdale, AZ

Advanced Studies - UNM, Taos, NM



Awards and Shows:

      

Group shows:



Maine Art Show, River Arts  Gallery 11, '10

Painting Maine, Damariscotta River Grill, '10, '11

Monhegan Perspectives, Archipelago Gallery, Damariscotta River Grill, Mae's Cafe,  '09, 10, 11

Taos Invites Taos 1999 - Best of Representational

Kaiser Permanent Invitational

Taos Invites Taos 2000 - Best of Show and Best of Representational

Oil Painters of America - National Juried shows, Santa Barbara, CA ; Taos, NM ; Missoula, MT

Scottsdale Artist School; ''Best and Brightest''

Pastel Society of Florida, Annual juried Show

Pastel Society of the West Coast Annual Juried Show



One Woman Shows:



Miles Memorial Hospital, '09; Damariscotta River Grill, '05 ;

Ars Longa Gallery, Taos, NM, ' 02;

Trading  Post cafe, Taos, N.M.  '96  

    

Memberships Teaching and more:



Pastel Society of America - elected to signature member in 1988.

Oil Painters of America - Member

River Arts- '09-'10 Teacher

Taos Institute of Art ' 01 - Teacher

Taos Art School ' 01 - 03 - Teacher

Private Students - 1990 to present

Freelance Commercial Artist - 1982-1992 (paintings, lithographs, porcelain sculpture )

''Absurd Realism'' - article, September ' 03



Other:



Professional Portrait painter 1979 to present

Commercial artist '83-'94 designing art plates, figurines, porcelain dolls and lithographs

''My theme is color and light. It never fails to amaze me how almost anything can be a foil for exploring those ingredients.''