Biography

Born in Oak Park, Illinois with a family of eight, we migrated to Stamford, Connecticut where I spent most of my childhood years. My home away from home became Southern Connecticut State University where I received my Bachelor of Science in Art Education. Upon graduation my art career began in illustration and design in a Connecticut art studio. Always yearning for a more rural, quiet life I soon found myself in New Hampshire where I freelanced with local art studios, then eventually began teaching Art at the local high school. After rewarding years teaching and administering as Fine Art Department Chair, I left teaching to pursue a career of a full time artist in my own studio/gallery on Pipe Dream Farm in Swanzey, New Hampshire. My energy ever since has been devoted to my passion of painting.

Pipe Dream Studio and Gallery is open by appointment and there is always new work to view. I am a member of  Arts Alive, New Hampshire Plein Air Painters, Monadnock Artists Association, National Art League in NYC, a signature member of The New England Watercolor Society, The Academic Artists Association and Vermont Watercolor Society. One of my paintings won the top award at The Salmagundi Club in New York City where I was juried in as a member. Searching for those special organizations that open up painting challenges for me continues to be an unexpected joy of this career.

Motivation and Dreams

IF I PAINT MY DREAMS THEY WILL COME TRUE

This is what I believed as a child: Horses ran across my grade school papers against a backdrop of flowers, barns and tree-covered hills. When I traveled by train from my hometown in Stamford, Ct. to New York City to visit my father at work I would look out the train window and imagine myself on a galloping horse. My horse and I, we flew by tenements and concrete buildings as they melted into the fields, woods and hillsides where I really wanted to be.

IF I PAINT MY DREAMS THEY WILL COME TRUE

Now I live on Pipe Dream Farm in rural Swanzey, New Hampshire. Here is where all those dreams have come to pass. As I ride my horse, I see fields, farms, forests and flowers from a horse-high view I would not see on foot. My love of horses helps me see. All are rich inspiration for my art.

IF I PAINT MY DREAMS THEY WILL COME TRUE

I work in watermedia to capture these dreams and share them with you. My hope is that as I find my own satisfaction and joy in each painting, that you too will share in these experiences through my work.

I PAINTED MY DREAMS AND THEY ALL CAME TRUE!