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Certain early memories have shaped the foundation of my life as an artist: looking out through a bottle-glass window in an ancient townhouse in the Marais district of Paris, the lush trees coined in the circular geometry of the leaded window; the constantly shifting and shimmering scale and theatricality of palazzi bobbing along the Grand Canal; the boundless and beaming kindness of a portrait by Titian. These are among the myriad images in my mind's eye.
For me creating art is a synthesis of my personal experience and vision against the backdrop of art history. Of special importance to the development of my aesthetic core are the works of Velasquez, Cezanne, Theodore Rousseau, Piet Mondrian and David Hockney.
I am a native of Southern California and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. My earliest exhibited works were installation pieces done in collaboration with performance artists at various venues in the Los Angeles area, including the Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery. I currently divide my time between New York City and South Florida.
I relocated to New York from San Francisco to paint an extensive mural cycle for a private collector's 5th Avenue residence. I have developed an international reputation as a muralist; my work has been published in numerous books and magazines in the U.S., europe and Japan. My paintings and drawings have been included in several shows in New York City galleries.
Whether I am painting or drawing a landscape, still-life or floral study I am manifesting an internal vision in pictorial space. Via memory and imagination I make visible a place or thing that exists only in mind or mood.
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