Welcome to my site! I hope you enjoy my visions in color, movement and light. The only surety in my process is to have a brush or knife and paint on the ready and get straight to discovery. Beyond that, any surface will suffice if you ask me. “There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.” –Helen Frankenhaler

These last few crazy years I have been trying to piece together my art history, as in when I first picked up paint and brush and hit at a canvas with sincere deliberation. This took some time diving into the Archives Department of The New School, and to my good fortune there is a dedicated archivist and her assistant on the ready to dig to find me. 

Norman Carton was an Abstract Expressionist of great esteem, and my instructor for a two-semester course, “Drawing, Painting, Color and Composition.” Yes, we did it all: with charcoal in hand I tackled what I could with his calm and extraordinary presence standing behind me, all the while him waxing poetic about painting in Paris in the 1930’s. The whole revolution of the post-modern world spinning this yarns and onto my canvas.

These days, I find myself staring at my own work with fresh eyes now that I have rediscovered those of my first real teacher. Sure there have been classes and workshops before and since my year at The New School, but there is something about the synchronicity of thinking back to this humble man who appeared label-less to me then, who only filled me with more vision and extended my possible, who now graces my memory as I create now, this time to satisfy my own daily state of being. 

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” -Anais Nin