I was preoccupied with drawing and painting at an early age. I spent summers and vacations with my Grandparents. My Grandmother was an art teacher married to a minister. Along the spooky corridors of the gothic rectory of their church in the Bowery, there were ten-foot oil paintings of past rectors and ministers. I kept thinking about those paintings.

When I was twelve, my grandparents invited me on their trip to Europe. The trip centered on art and religion (cathedrals) – you name it, we saw it.

I took art seriously at fifteen.  As a fine arts major, I attended Antioch College and Massachusetts College of Art studying painting with George Nick and drawing with Kaji Aso of Kaji Aso Studios in Boston.   But, due to the vicissitudes of life, was sidetracked and ended up in law before becoming a financial planner.

At heart, I’m a realist with a need for movement and color.   I was always familiar with Frederick Remington and Western artists due to my Grandmother’s love of painting and painters.

Now, having moved to Nevada, the great landscapes of the American West lay just outside my door.