Painting and drawing have always been a part of my life. In fact, I remember drawing on the sidewalks on my street as far back as my memory goes. Later, I studied painting at the New School in NYC with Norman Carten, and then earned a BA in Fine Arts. I participated in group shows at the Art Lab and the Neuhouse Gallery in Staten Island, NY. I am currently painting with a group of talented artists led by James Kent at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, NJ and in my studio at home in Middletown, NJ.

I have painted portraits, still lifes and landscapes in the past. Today I find working in the abstract very interesting and challenging. Art for me now encompasses a very large world. There's nothing out of bounds; everything is grist for the mill, the only limitation being the self-limiting fear of the unknown. Every painting then becomes a revelation and sometimes even a revolution.

To paint is an intimate and sometimes chaotic experience, a play with lines or crashing colors that expose emotion not yet understood. The desire is always to be ahead of thought -- to allow the art to speak either dynamically or poetically, and then to entice the viewer to keep looking.

I sometimes sit and just meditate for a time, then I pick up a brush and quickly paint black lines anywhere my brush wants to go. That gives the eye something to play with. I may go in with the palette knife with color, usually in contrast, working quickly to avoid the drag of thinking, just being led by the possibilities offered in front of me until the canvas is covered and I feel there is no where else to go for now. I may need to go further or I may need to scrape down some areas or place a wash of another color over an area thought "done." The initial painted lines may become a partially invisible history very necessary to the completed work. After a focused engagement with the canvas and paint, I see something perhaps very unlike its brave beginnings emerge as an object apart.