Hello and Welcome!
Viewing this site is much better on a computer. Some wonky line breaks are possible on phones (so many different sizes) and the images (paintings and photos) need to be seen on a screen as large as possible. Please try to do that. I'm begging you! lol.
On any device, clicking the image opens up a larger version.
A little about me: From youth I was drawn to the arts and in my 20s at Purchase College I auditioned for and was accepted into the acting program. I then had opportunities to act in, and to "live within," the worlds of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, and other greats of the theater. What profound worlds they created, what profound questions they asked!
Some years after graduation, while working at a full-time non-artistic career, I gravitated to the visual arts after suffering a broken heart at the hands of an artist. For a year I lived in her art-centric world. After the split, I grieved and began painting for therapy and also to have a creative outlet. She hardly ever crosses my mind but I'm still painting. I have been for almost 20 years, and taking photos longer.
I retired recently and have had time to put this site together.
Making visual art is my reaction to our beautiful/ugly, mysterious, often-baffling existence. I find it to be both therapeutic and gratifying--as well as personally necessary--when I'm exploring and creating, and then when things go "right" (expressing what I'm "going for"), it is extremely gratifying and, I dare to say!, proud-making. When unable to do that, when I struggle, I change direction often. Many times my finished paintings don't resemble, don't contain the same elements, as their beginnings. Sometimes there are 3 paintings beneath the visible one.
In regard to my photography, I'm particularly excited about my African safari, Block Island, Joshua Tree, and Jones Beach Dunes photos and I think it would be worth your time to view them.
If possible, go on a safari!
I also feel really good about my Art photos and would love to have a show of large prints of both my Beach and Guardrail series.
All images on the site, if clicked, will enlarge. If you know you're drawn more towards photography than abstract painting, please access my photos before viewing the paintings. My hope is that you'll also view the paintings. I've heard sometimes from people that they see a kinship between my photos and paintings--I can see that. Very often viewers claim they see recognizable objects within the abstract paintings. That's fine. I also see "things" in them--that's kind of cool but was entirely unintended.
I enjoy living in New York City and attend numerous cultural offerings; I have eclectic tastes (music of all genres and periods, modern and classical dance, museums, galleries, art films, theater, opera, etc.) there is probably no better place to spend one's life. From my house I have only a 1/2 hour train ride into midtown Manhattan, and in the other direction a 1/2 hour drive to Atlantic Ocean beaches, where I swim, do some body surfing, and walk the shoreline.
Finally, I want to thank my late mother, Elizabeth, who fell in love with the arts at a young age (on a 1930s high school field trip from rural New Jersey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan), and then exposed me to numerous artistic endeavors (museums, broadway, the opera and ballet) as well as the beauty of the natural world (sunsets, flowers, landscapes and animal life).
I enjoy living in New York City and attend numerous cultural offerings; I have eclectic tastes (music of all genres and periods, modern and classical dance, museums, galleries, art films, theater, opera, etc.) there is probably no better place to spend one's life. From my house I have only a 1/2 hour train ride into midtown Manhattan, and in the other direction a 1/2 hour drive to Atlantic Ocean beaches, where I swim, do some body surfing, and walk the shoreline.
Finally, I want to thank my late mother, Elizabeth, who fell in love with the arts at a young age (on a 1930s high school field trip from rural New Jersey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan), and then exposed me to numerous artistic endeavors (museums, broadway, the opera and ballet) as well as the beauty of the natural world (sunsets, flowers, landscapes and animal life).