I began painting about 15 years ago, when I was living on the South Shore of Massachusetts.  I studied painting with various teachers from the North River Art Association in Marshfield and the South Shore Art Association in Cohasset.  Lately I’ve taken workshops with master painters from the Plein Air Painters of America, including Camille Przewodek, Ken Auster, John Budicin, Jeanne LeGassick, Frank LaLumia, Ned Mueller, George Strickland, Ralph Oberg, Joseph Paquet and Kenn Backhaus, as well as Boston based artists John Kilroy and George Nick. 

Generally I paint in the Alla Prima method, that is, directly from life.  In that same vein I do a lot of Plein Air painting, and I feel that to really be a good landscape painter you need to do this, to be face to face with nature.  There’s a quality that you can capture that is more than just the values, shapes and composition, when you’re actually feeling the wind and smelling the flowers.

I enjoy traveling and painting things from different locations, and there is no subject that I dislike, although painting landscapes outdoors is my favorite thing to do.  The mood, the emotion of the scene is what catches  my interest and I try to translate the feelings I experience into something a viewer can relate to.  I think artists see the world differently, and through their art try to bring people’s attention to the beauty that surrounds us everyday, that might otherwise go unnoticed.