Artist Statement

My creative process starts with people, light, patterns or shapes. Often with camera and sketchbook in hand.  I have traveled across the globe or as close as my backyard. I seem to be drawn to those fleeting moments in which light and texture brings emotions or memories to the surface. My challenge is visually translating it all onto paper.

I would like the viewer to look upon my paintings sensing air in the shadows and the light dancing just on the surface. This is my passion that keeps me at my easel.

I believe using watercolors helps me to convey that. The challenge of this paint medium, and the delight is never quite having total control or knowing how it will end.

It is my hope in that the viewer will be drawn into my art pieces for the story, or the way the light, texture and patterns are evoking something inside them.  The take away is to be surprised in discovering it is created using watercolor, changing the way people think of watercolor paintings.

Biography

1983- BFA Parsons School of Design
1982- Parsons in Paris

Signature Member - Pennsylvania Watercolor Society

Signature Member - Philadelphia Watercolor Society

2018

The Salmagundi Club
Painting and Sculpture Exhibition

North East Watercolor Society
42nd Annual International Juried Exhibition

The New England Watercolor Society
16th Biennial North America Open Exhibition

Pennsylvania Watercolor Society
39th International Juried Exhibition

Philadelphia Watercolor Society
118h Anniversary International Exhibition
Works in Paper

2017

The New England Watercolor Society
Juried Exhibition
Newport Museum of Art
Ruth Wynn Memorial Award

North East Watercolor Society
41st Annual International Juried Exhibition

Pennsylvania Watercolor Society
38th Annual Juried Exhibition
QoR, American Frame, Silver Brush Award

Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Member Show

Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts
106th Exhibition
Mystic Museum of Art

2016

The Salmagundi Club
Painting and Sculpture Exhibition (non member)

Philadelphia Watercolor Society
116th Anniversary International Exhibition
Works in Paper

Pennsylvania Watercolor Society
37th International Juried Exhibition

The New England Watercolor Society
15th Biennial North America Open Show

Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Member Show
Honorable Mention

Splash 18
Runner Up