About Me

Originally from Fairfield CT, I have lived in NYC, Provincetown,
Santa Fe, NM and for six years in the eighties I was the owner and
director of my own gallery in Westport CT representing regional New England artists, but I was on a reprive from creating my own art. For 25 years my career was interior design. That career has co-mingled with the need to have art in my life to this day. I eventually went on to work in and or manage galleries for over thirty years including Westport CT, Provincetown MA and Santa Fe, NM. Seven years in Santa Fe brought to my life the opportunity to forge intimate relationships with the artists I
represented, spend endless hours in career artist studios,
discovering new talent and have the joyous experience of finding
them an audience. But, most importantly it changed my
relationship with art and I started to paint seriously again after not touching a brush for 25 years. The horizon, the sky, the clouds have been my constant. Growing up, my life revolved around beaches, Long Island sound and the marshes and inlets along the New England coast. Provincetown was home for a decade and in my life since childhood. That environment left an indefinable mark I cannot deny in my work.

I am a graduate of Paier College of Art in New Haven CT. Studies included fine art, advertising and graphic design. I ultimately graduated with a major in interior design and followed that path for many years with projects in NYC, Connecticut, Provincetown, MA, Santa Fe, NM and S. Florida. Other studies have included silk screening at the Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, studio painting at The SIlvermine School in SIlvermine Ct and studio life classes at the Cape Cod Conservatory of Art and Music. My work has been represented in galleries in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Mexico and Florida.

Though I will often lay in a painting in acrylic, my preferred medium is oil. I never start a painting on a white canvas, but I also do not wash my canvas in siennas or umbers. I start my work on variations of black, Payne’s grey, or deep ultramarines. The first strokes across a canvas can often dictate the direction or palette of a painting. I have found the initial broad stroke of dry brush color on the dark ground can bring immediate mood, palette and depth.

“My goal in my work is to share the impression the relationships in nature have made upon me. A snap shot of great open spaces. I have always been fascinated by the horizon, the relationship between the vast expanse of sky above and the great earth we inhabit below”.

Featured At

Nylen Gallery, Westport CT: Featured artist, April – June 2024
Charlestown Gallery, Charlestown RI: gallery artist, 2020 – 2023
Arts United, Fort Lauderale FL: 2020 – 2023, featured artist May 2021
Woodfield FIne Art, St Patersburg FL: gallery artist 2021 – 2022
Claudia Castillo Gallery, Wilton Manors FL: gallery artist 2021 – 2022
MAE Fine Art, Delray Beach FL: gallery artist 2016 – 2017
Indigo Gallery, Madrid NM; gallery artist 2020 – 2023
Manitou Galleries, Santa Fe NM: holiday show Dec. 2014
Arroyo Gallery, Santa Fe NM: gallery artist 2009 – 2011
City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport CT: small works holiday show 2007