I grew up in Edward Hopper's hometown of Nyack, New York in the Hudson Valley and was influenced by Hopper's work (my high school art teacher mowed Hopper's lawn) and that of the Hudson River School painters. School trips were often to the New York City museums, and I continued to regularly visit the museums when home from college and graduate school.
In college I studied painting with James Penney and, while living in Baltimore, I studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art with Louise Hennessey, Philip Koch, Stan Friedman, and others. In recent years, I have focused plein air landscapes in oil. Whether on our porch as a child or in the fields of Upstate New York, I painted en plein air long before I had any idea what that meant.