Born: Worcester, Massachusetts

Education: Art Institute of Boston 1977-79
University of Washington, B.A. 1989

After growing up on Cape Cod, I attended the Art Institute of Boston, followed by a period of aimlessness and travel.

A trip around the world, touring the many great museums, riding camels to the Pyramids in Cairo, bathing at the Hammam in Istanbul and watching snake charmers and dancing bears walk down the street in New Delhi, moved me to pick-up my paint brushes again. I've been painting for 15 years and make my home in Seattle.

I paint in the realist tradition, although I believe there is always an abstract element to the compostion.
Light is what most attracts me to a subject.

Someone once said that a good writer can make any subject matter interesting and I belive this to be true of painting also.