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My journey as a painter began not in a classroom, but in the deep stillness of a wooded hillside in Putnam County, New York. As a young man working the land with my father, I was surrounded by mountain light, distant valleys, and the kind of solitude that quietly shaped my inner world. Though I didn’t have the words for it then, those early encounters with the land became the emotional foundation for everything I now create.
Years later, I stumbled across a book of Andrew Wyeth’s work in a Long Island library. It stopped me cold. His landscapes mirrored the feeling I'd long carried in my bones—that the land isn’t just seen, but felt. That realization led me into the world of Homer, Sargent, and eventually to the bold experimentation of Braque, Matisse, Derain, and the American watercolorist Frank Webb. Through them, I discovered that painting is not about copying the world, but about revealing its emotional core.
For over 30 years, I’ve painted in the three mediums of watercolor, oil, and acrylic in a style that blends American Impressionism with Fauvist color and a distinctly personal sense of place. My landscapes aren’t meant to document—they’re meant to remember, to awaken something quiet and familiar in the viewer.
My work has appeared on book covers, in Home and Garden UK Magazine, restaurants, corporate spaces, and in private collections across the U.S., Canada, England, France, and Germany.
Each painting begins with a memory, a walk, a sudden shift in the sky—and ends with a question: What does the land still have to tell us?