Why?

When I am in my studio the magic that I feel takes all the troubles of the world and life and sets them aside. My vision is focused on that square of canvas in front of me.  It is that feeling which helped me to make the choice to end my career as a Space Planner and Designer.  After twenty-five years, I had completed the design of nearly 2.5 million square feet of Corporate offices and Hospitals and I decided to begin another career that I had yearned to do for many years.  As an Architectural space planner and Designer,  I had been instrumental in the Art selection process for my clients and I believe that those years fed into my desire to become an Artist of merit in my own right.

Back To School...

In 2001, I enrolled in our local College to review what I had done in Design school but with a different “eye”. I began my journey through my first years of classes in drawing and painting and moved through a progression of still life, landscape, figure drawing and then to my “true love” Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Abstracts. I took many workshops and studio classes with some extraordinarily talented teachers and professional Artists both on the Monterey Peninsula and in France.

What Happened...

In 2009, I submitted my first paintings to a Juried show in Sand City, CA sponsored by the Arts Council of the City of Sand City and was thrilled to be selected as a participating Artist. That led to an invitation in 2010 by the Host Gallery to have my first solo show.  In 2011, I was selected to be “Artist of the Month” on Santana Row in San Jose, CA.  And in the spring of 2011, while on a trip to Spain, I made contact with a woman who 'loved' my work, asked to represent me and consequently, I now have 18 paintings in Valencia, Spain! An incredible city for Design and Art. I now have several collectors in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose, The Monterey Peninsula, Paris and Barcelona.

How...

My process is done in many stages with a great deal of paint and layers applied and pulled apart to reveal underlying layers of color. As the painting develops, more and more is revealed that shows me the direction where I want to take the painting  It is both a nonrepresentational style of painting and yet, figures and objects sometimes emerge (* see “Hidden Venus” and "The Lady in Red").

Inspired...

My great inspiration is the sea. I am fortunate  to be able to walk along the beach in Carmel by the Sea every morning and see the changing colors of the sky, the sand, the rocks and the water.  I am awed by the Abstract Expressionists who opened the world to a new style of painting: primarily Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Hans Hofmann, Juan Miro and Gerhard Richter, Wilhelm de kooning.