I was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with my family at the age of seven. While in school, I developed a keen interest in art and drawing, and was greatly encouraged by my high school art teachers to pursue my passions. My interest in drawing quickly progressed to a fascination with painting. I discovered that with oil paints I could take just about anything I could imagine and translate it onto canvas.
After being accepted at several different universities, including the Pratt Institute of New York, I decided to study art at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
I paint in the oil impasto style, a technique used in art where paint is laid thickly on canvas, leaving visible brush (or palette knife) strokes. When dry, impasto provides a great deal of texture to the finished painting. I also work with several other mediums in addition to oils, most notably watercolors. Only high quality artist's materials, permanent lightfast pigments, archival canvas mounted on solid wood stretcher bars, and acid-free watercolor papers are used in the creation of my work.
I have been fortunate to receive several first-place awards in national competitions, and my paintings have been purchased by collectors throughout the United States, as well as internationally. I am currently a member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society.
Please see the Links page for a list of my current exhibit locations.
Past Exhibits
The Spot Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
4th Annual Art Exhibition, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
Earth Works Art Gallery, Penn Yan, NY
Citizens Bank, Sewickley, PA
The Open Mind Bookstore, Sewickley, PA
Group Show, The Inn at Glen Echo, Glen Echo, MD
Group Show, Flutes of Georgetown, Washington, DC
One-Person Show, Wiebe-Bonwell Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
National On-Paper Show, Terrance Gallery, Palenville, NY
National Juried Art Show, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Group Show, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Group Show, CMU Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Prints Available Online
Professional Associations
National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society
Grants & Awards
Multiple Today’s Best Awards, Zazzle.com
Koi Fish prints selected for publication by AllPosters.com
First Place, Purchase Award, charcoal drawing, Terrance Gallery
First Place, acrylic painting, CMU Art Gallery
Second Place, silk-screen, George Washington University
Partial Scholarship, Carnegie-Mellon University
Selected Bibliography
Wiebe-Bonwell Gallery Show, Sewickley Herald
Macbeth Poster, Sewickley Herald
Paintings, Bittersweet Magazine
Commissions
“Provence Lavender” 2009, Private Collection, PA
“Portuguese Water Spaniel” 2009, Private Collection, PA
"English Toy Spaniel" 2009, Private Collection, PA
"Sour Apple Martini" 2008, Private Collection, PA
"Himalayan Cat" 2008, Private Collection, MN
“Fisherman, Quebec” 2008, Private Collection, KS
"Field of Red Poppies" 2008, Private Collection, CA
"Kohaku Koi and Water Lily" 2008, Private Collection, TX
"Kitten Portrait, Stormy" 2007, Private Collection, OR
"Pennsylvania Farm" 2007, Private Collection, PA
"Ballerina" 2007, Private Collection, PA
"Childhood Barn" 2007, Private Collection, PA
"Girl with Dog, Nova Scotia" 2007, Private Collection, PA
"Koi Fish" 2007, Upper Midwest Koi Society, MI
"Pear Still-life" 2007, Private Collection, PA
"Sewickley Village" 2007, Private Collection, PA
"Wildflowers" 2007, Private Collection, IL
"Maine Coastline" 2006, Private Collection, MA
"Lighthouse, Portland Head Light" 2006, Private Collection, MA
"Wild Rose" 2006, Private Collection, PA
"Poppies and Storm Clouds" 2006, Private Collection, NY
"Backyard, South Carolina" 2006, Private Collection, PA
"Red-eyed Tree Frog" 2006, Private Collection, MA
"Sewickley Village" 2006, Private Collection, PA
"Provence Poppy Field" 2006, Private Collection, PA
"Sulphur-wing Butterfly" 2005, Private Collection, PA
"Golfing Portrait" 2005, Private Collection, PA
"Golf Scotland" 2005, Private Collection, PA
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