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Graceful Gesture

New Red Dress

Nap Time

Celebration

Farmers Market

Summer Enchantment

Peaceful Moment

Mr. Bojangles

Rinsing off the Sand

Lost in Thought

Repose

Learning to Swim

Dana

Diana

Free Spirit

Gloucester Skyline

Fremont Street Row Houses

Gloucester Harbor

Boston Nocturne

Motif #1

Morning on the Fox

Ipswich Bridge

Good Harbor Beach #1

Good Harbor Beach #2

Biography

Art Studies: American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois

Figure Drawing: Bill Parks Oil Painting: Ted Smuskiewicz

Workshops: Scott Burdick David Hettinger

Harley Brown Matt Smith Mark Daily Dan Goozee

Motivation: My goal as an artist is to create paintings that are powerful in their visual beauty

and that resonate in some emotional way with the viewer.

Style: Representational

Subjects: My favorite subjects are people and their interactions with each other.

To me, the human experience is captivating and the human figure is the essence of beauty. My passion is portraying people in situations of

all kinds. The human form is the most expressive of subjects.

Media: Oil, Pastel, Charcoal

Memberships: Oil Painters of America

American Impressionist Society Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts

Recognition: February 2010 FineArtViews Contest Finalist

10th Annual American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition 15th Annual OPA National Juried Exhibition Award of Excellence

Salon International 2007 National Juried Exhibition The Artists' Magazine Annual Competition Portrait Finalist