I have been painting for more than 25 years. My medium is oilbar (or pigment sticks) on canvas or paper. My subject is the natural world, sometimes landscapes, but more often natural objects — leaves, stones, seeds, pods — taken from context, examined, enlarged, and given rhetorical or metaphorical meaning. I have a BFA from Rutgers University (NJ), having studied with some of the cutting-edge artists of the 1950s and 1960s, including Roy Lichtenstein, Allen Kaprow, George Segal, and Robert Watts, all of whom intimidated the hell out of me as an undergraduate. It took me 30 years to return to painting with some confidence and real pleasure. I have been a working artist since 1988, participating in the rich art life of Baltimore, MD, for 20 years and more recently in the Greenbrier Valley as a member of the Monroe Fine Artists, Greenbrier Artists, and, most recently, WV Fine Artisans Gallery in Lewisburg, WV. I have shown locally at Carnegie Hall in 2004 and 2013, Greenbrier Valley Theater, and the Greenbrier Resort.
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