Education:

M.F.A., Painting, Graduate School of Figurative Art, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, 2003

B.A., Fine Art, Indiana University at South Bend, South Bend, Indiana, 1984

Independent Coursework in Painting and Drawing, New York Academy of Art and The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 2000-2001

Copyist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1989-1990

Artist's Statement:

In my work as a painter and draftsman, I hold to the doctrine that nature is the ultimate source of all significant form and color in art, and that an

understanding of world traditions in art is important in guiding the artist in how to use nature's forms and colors. A statement like this might

easily have passed without controversy until recently, and would probably have been endorsed by such modern painters as Mondrian, Kandinsky

and Picasso. In light of certain recent trends, it does seem to go a bit against the grain, and so be it. For all that it may mean anything, I consider

myself a modern artist.