I was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, a manufacturing town that prided itself on the production of shoes. As a kid I remember walking down the streets amongst the factory buildings, listening to the cacophony of sound as the machines stamped out the leather and the pungent stink rising from the tanning process.
In grade school, I did the first drawing that I can remember. It was a cat that looked more like an elephant, or maybe it was an elephant that looked like a cat. Regardless, it found its way on to the side of the refrigerator for a couple of months and the die was cast. An artist I was.
Being a regular at the local library, I found several books on drawing and read them with a vengeance. Progressing through school I continued to draw and refine my art skills.
After a four-year tour of duty in the U.S. Air Force, as a Russian linguist, I returned home to the North Shore of Boston and pursued an education in art at the Montserrat College of Visual Art.
Under the mentorship of Alfred Czerepak, a teacher at Montserrat, I started exhibiting my art in galleries in Rockport and Gloucester. Over the past 40 years I have been exhibiting in galleries throughout New England and New York.
In July of 2019 I moved to South Florida, north of Miami. I participated in a group show at the Artist Guild Gallery in Boca Raton in the spring of 2020. Then Covid-19 struck, and the art scene took a big hit and pretty much disappeared.
Now I am creating at my studio in Boynton Beach Florida working on Sumi-e paintings, a new medium and method for me, and I am having a blast.