BIOGRAPHY

I’ve always favored realist art. Whether it’s of people, places,

or things, representational art impressed me more than Expressionist or abstract.

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Like most kids I knew, I grew up with Walt Disney.

The animations were amazing, and in grade school I began drawing from the big picture books I had.  With colored pencils

I tried feverishly to recreate the 3-dimensional look of the brightly colored images emerging from the pages, and in high school I drew rock stars and famous people that stared at me from the pages of magazines I would devour. When I entered college, I drew masterfully from photographs.

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College introduced a whole world of abstract, classical, Neo-classical, Impressionist, Expressionist, and 20th century art movements, and a mixture of realism plus those elements began populating my artworks.

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After a break during which I explored other artistic forms, I returned to visual art where my  work consists mainly of pencil and oil painting. Famous and “real people” are my subjects. For me, the painter Chuck Close is the Father of photorealism and my pencil work is homage to him.