Making art and teaching have been two constant passions in my life. I have been obsessed with the idea of trying to capture some bits of the visual energy of the natural world in my painting. My style of painting varies dramatically based on what I perceive as the best way to present that energy. I studied studio art and art education at Rhode Island College (BS) and Rhode Island School of Design (MAE). I worked teaching high school art at Hopkinton High School in New Hampshire for 31 years with the most dedicated group of people I have ever known. Julys and Augusts were spent franticly painting in New Hampshire.  In 2012 I retired from teaching and now spend my days painting in Massachusetts. One technique that I am painting is a series inspired by the Japanese word Komorebi which describes the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees. The underpainting is a loose gestural sketch to represent the branches of the trees. Short diagonal brushstrokes mimicking pixels overlaying most of the underpainting in a process that takes months to complete. I find the painting process to be a sort of meditative process while building up the surfaces of the image. Another technique that I am working in recently starts without any intention towards the final image. Using trowels I randomly spread a mixture of heavy bodied gesso thickened with marble dust onto the canvas to create a textural surface. After the gesso dries, I look for images that may be suggested by the textured surface of the canvas and help those images emerge by adding acrylic paint with palette knives, rollers, paint syringes, and brushes. My hope is to bring the viewer closer to nature and to feel the slowed pulse of the natural world. I have been privileged to have been juried into a variety of exhibitions. My work is in personal and public collections in New England and New York. A complete list of recent exhibitions, awards, and memberships can be viewed on my website under the past exhibitions / biography tab.