Artist's Statement
Art has been the wellspring of my life beginning when I was four years of age. What a thrill to have my drawing displayed on a children's TV show! Creating became my impetus to study art, develop my skills and discover just what I'm capable of doing. My ideas come from observing people and places. As an artist, I view the world through discerning eyes. I look at people and visualize painting their expression or something unusual about them. Simple life events inspire me to capture a moment in everyday living. I have an unrelenting desire to portray what I see, seizing the light, color, movement, revealing a part of my inner self. I'm a true colorist as can be witnessed in my oil paintings. I find the line in a life drawing intriguing, the lighting in a plein-air landscape a challenge and a portrait most compelling.
My current work encompasses the beauty of the sea, the beach and Cape Cod, where I live. I show and sell my oil painting on the Cape in various galleries and exhibits and privately.
ART EDUCATION/WORKSHOPS
Portraiture Workshop with world famous portrait artist, Daniel Greene, North Salem, NY
Poetry Workshop, Writing Children's Books, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
Cape Cod Museum, private instruction painting under Robert Roark
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, painting with Rick Clayton
The Synergy of Art, Chatham, MA
SCBWI Workshop/ Conference Manhattan
Pace University, NY, BS concentration in art
Seton College, NY, AAS Art Major
Savannah College of Art and Design, GA, Children’s Book Illustration
Cultural Arts Program, Savannah, GA
The Reilly League of Artists, White Plains, NY, under Cesare Borgia
Life Drawing/NY, SC, MA
Famous Artist School, Westport, CT/scholarship
ART TEACHER
Hilton Head High School, SC,
Rockland Community College, NY
Grammar School Art, Westchester, Bronx, NY
Cathedral High School for Girls, Manhattan
GALLERIES/ EXHIBITS/ART AFFILIATIONS
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS, COTUIT, MA
CHATHAM FINE ARTS CENTER, CHATHAM, MA
ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD
LARKIN GALLERY, INC, PROVINCETOWN, MA
POST OFFICE GALLERY, NORTH TRURO, MA
PALETTE FINE ART GALLERY, SANDWICH, MA
THE GALLERY, HARWICHPORT, MA
THE RED GALLERY, EASTHAM LIBRARY, EASTHAM, MA
THE CULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD, YARMOUTHPORT, MA
The Portrait Society of America
The Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Fraser Art Gallery, HHI, SC
Self Family Art Center, HHI, SC
Sea Pines Art Center, HHI, SC
Savannah Art Association Gallery, GA
Society of Bluffton Artists, SC
Ragged Sailor Gallery, Block Island, RI
Choate House, Pace University Gallery, NY
Seton College Gallery, NY
Archdiocese of NY/ Best of Show, Manhattan
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