Bio

I’ve been painting in oils for more than thirty years, beginning in my high school’s wonderful art department. I went on to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I studied under Sidney Goodman, Elizabeth Osborne, Arthur DeCosta, and others, while learning almost as much from my fellow students.

After art school, I remained in Philadelphia for another fifteen years and completed a BFA at the University of Pennsylvania, where I focused primarily on art history, literature, and poetry. I now live and work in the peaceful Pennsylvania town of Perkasie, where I paint full time and teach drawing and painting workshops locally.

My early work might be described as painterly realism. I would often spend a month or two on a single painting, concentrating less on a literal description of the subject than on the perception of light and atmosphere. Midway through my career, I became interested in the Daily Painting Movement and its emphasis on immediacy and spontaneity. Over the course of seven years, I made several hundred very small paintings, a daily practice that profoundly changed the way I approached my work.

I have since returned to my roots, once again spending more time with individual paintings and trying to convey a deeper experience of a particular scene. I consider realism a way of paying attention to the beauty and mystery of the natural world, but also as a starting point for strong design and clarity of statement. I find inspiration in the work of modern painters such as Edward Hopper, Fairfield Porter and Walter Murch.