I paint mostly oils and but also watercolor. I make drawings with graphite and charcoal. I make prints mostly intaglio (etching and dry point) but also some lithography and woodcut. My strongest interest is in the human figure, and in landscape both natural and man made. I draw and paint mostly from life, and interact strongly with my subject matter, yielding representational work with strong expressivity.

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. I have been drawing and painting since childhood, with a hiatus of thirty years when I pursued a career in Biochemistry. I am largely self-taught. However, since the early nineties I have pursued academic training in studio art and in art history.

I have the following formal art education. Pratt Institute: Saturday Morning Youth Classes.I attended about three years between ages 10 to thirteen. I received training in drawing, oil painting and commercial art. Montgomery College, Rockville: I have had courses in drawing, •painting, •design, •printmaking and •art history (33 credits with a 4.O grade point average). There he studied intaglio and other printmaking techniques with •Barbara Kerne, and •John Carr. I attended a mezzotint workshop of •Carol Wax. Montgomery College Takoma Park: I studied intaglio printmaking with Joyce Jewell. Other: I also studied with Scip Barnhart at Union Printmakers Atelier. I have had extended communication with various master printers, curators and artists.