My work is expressionistic realism. I am concerned not with objective reality but rather the emotions that objects and events arouse within a person, reactions—positive or negative—especially the realization of the self within the viewer. Distortion, exaggeration, and fantasy are the filters through which I paint the modern world.

I do not do classical, conventional academic paintings. It is hoped that anyone looking for unconventional art, including a portrait commission will find interest in my work. My work is different—it is not conventional, academic, or even the new modernism. I am creating a new avant-garde.

I won the “Face of Queen Anne’s County” medal for one of my oil paintings. My awards also include First, Second, Third and Best in Show awards as well as numerous Honorable Mention awards and Award of Merit certificates. I have been featured in articles in several newspapers, and magazines, and interviewed on television, both local and network. I have had solo and group shows in Baltimore, Columbia, Annapolis, Frederick, Stevensville, and Centreville Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Chelsea, New York City. I teach painting and drawing workshops in local schools, arts councils, an environmental center, and private lessons in my studio. I have also given portrait drawing demonstrations. I have paintings in private collections across the country and Australia. I was born in 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland and studied at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Maryland Institute College of Art. I currently live and work on Kent Island, just off the eastern shore of Maryland.