I work with the following media- painting (oils and watercolor), drawing (graphite, ink) and printmaking (mostly intaglio (etching and dry point) but also some lithography and woodcut. My strongest interest is in the human figure, and in landscape). I usually draw and paint from life. I interact strongly with my subject matter, that yields representational work with strong expressivity. At times I work surrealistically and abstractly. I use photographs and the computer as aids. I have been drawing and painting since childhood, with a hiatus of thirty years while I pursued a career in Biochemistry. I am largely self-taught although I had some training at Pratt Institute as a youth. Also, since the early nineties I have pursued academic training in studio art and in art history at Montgomery College, both at Rockville and Takoma Park MD.

I have exhibited my work largely in the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia area. I have had work juried into many competive exhibits and I have won numerous awards for my paintings, prints and drawings. I also have had work juried into national exhibits. I have had one person exhibits in addition to being in group exhibits.

I was born and raised in New York City. I moved to the Washington-Baltimore area in the late fifties. I received a B.A. in Biology-Chemistry from Brooklyn College, and the Ph.D. in Microbiology-Biochemistry from Yale University. I studied additionally at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard and the Weizmann Institute, and worked for twenty-seven years at the Smithsonian Institution.