I try to impart the serenity and beauty I find in nature in my oil landscapes. Much of my work features the Chicago North Shore and western Michigan. I usually paint from photographs, but some of my work has been done "en plein air".

 

After receiving a BA from Albion College, Albion, Michigan with a major in Art, I taught Art in Hazel Park, Michigan. I studied for many years at the Evanston Art Center with George Rocheleau and David Gista and have also studied at the Summer School of Painting at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan with the School of the Art Institute under Lynette Lombard (Knox College, Galesburg, IL) and Don Southard (School of the Art Institute, Chicago). I am currently a student of David D'Arcy at the North Shore Art League, Winnetka, IL.

 

My work has been shown in Wilmette with the Wilmette Arts Guild, in Winnetka with the North Shore Art League, in Evanston at the Evanston Art Center and in juried shows in Highland Park at the Suburban Fine Arts Center (Artistic Connection:Art League Alliance November, 2004; "12X12" 2005) It is in private collections as well as part of the permanent collection at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.