Artist’s Statement:

I have come to the belief that the years spent working as a surgical artist as well as teaching the subject have provided me with an extremely useful background. However, after years of precisely portraying surgical anatomy for limited color production, I now enjoy creating full-sized figurative paintings and working with a live model.  I think pastels are particularly colorful and allow me to loosen up due to the limitations of the medium. They are much easier for me than oils, but with the later, I’m thoroughly enjoying the challenge. Plein-air landscape painting takes place when I’m traveling and recently I’ve been dabbling with watercolor and gouache, and this too screams for more attention. Now that I have the time to focus on my fine art, after years of 'red for the arteries, and blue for the veins', I’m curious where the path will take me.

My fine artwork has appeared in The Artist’s Magazine, The Pastel Journal, International Artist and The Best of Portraiture. My two video’s “Steps to a Likeness-Pastel’ and “Steps to a Likeness-Oil” were featured in the 2005 Summer issue of the North Light Book Club following an excellent review in the Pastel Journal. I have led workshops nationally and in several locations in Tuscany, Italy.