Traveling the trails through the Kittatiny, Catskill and Green Mountains have been a continued influence and resource. I have also recently started exploring caverns and the remaining old-growth forests in Vermont. Still through the tradition of landscape I find a way to enter being more fully. In landscapes and interior spaces, the world of each painting reveals itself slowly. I also have a continued interest in figure work sometimes using them as a pivot point in a vast landscape or at times the main subject.
I enrolled at the Art Students League in 1969, receiving scholarships.
I studied with Tom Fogarty, Sydney Dickensen, Knox Martin, and finally
Vaclav Vytlacil. Vytlacil presented a classical approach spanning cultures,
history, and styles. In 1973 I began working at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, given keys and free reign to wander the galleries and storerooms. I worked 8 years in the FDNY, pressure-filled dark heated, elemental alchemy overwhelming, conclusions drastically instantaneous. These experiences have led to some surrealistic and explosive expressions. A series is now evolving "nature’s forces in the leveled geometry of tenement and projects." A landscape of the forces that course through ourselves and our environment as seen framed in a charred tenement window.
Biography
