PROFILE

I have had a long and successful career in interior architecture designing spaces for a broad range of corporate clients. I worked for design, architectural and engineering firms in Detroit, Michigan, taught at university and had my own firm for twelve years in the Washington DC area. After closing my business I was fortunately able to return to my first interest - drawing and painting.  For the past many years I have been working steadily developing my skills as a draftsman, a print maker and a painter. Though primarily figurative my works are not explicitly pictorial.  They are compositions I develop alluding to or suggestive of my ideas or thoughts. 

My higher education includes a BFA from Wayne State University and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Later I studied anatomy and osteology, figure drawing and painting at Corcoran School of Art under Hayes Friedman for two years.

In Kent, Connecticut I printed and exhibited at Road Kill Press for five years and also did public demonstrations of lithography. Currently my works are held in private collections in Connecticut, Washington, DC and Sweden.  I exhibit my work at my studio in Kent, Connecticut by appointment only.

My Lithographs have been exhibited at:

  • The Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
  • Silvermine Arts Guild, New Canaan, CT
  • Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
  • Maryland Confederation of Art, Annapolis, MD
  • Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
  • The Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA

I was born in 1951 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. My family moved frequently around the east coast and to Germany in 1955, but it was still too ravaged by war and we returned home. Then, when I was eight years old we moved to Innsbruck, Austria and went on to live in Hall in Tyrol, Vienna and Mjölby, Sweden. I experienced a broad range of cultures, learned several languages, attended the local schools and churches and studied violin. I was exposed not only to classical fine art, architecture and literature, but also the remnants of extreme poverty, primitive living and the left over destruction from the war. After an absence of seven years my family returned to the United States via Canada after living in Montreal then Windsor, Ontario.