All of my aRt involves a sense of movement in some form. Drawn to the sea as a child, I choose to always live near the sea.

 

My paintings are the inspiration for some fabric compositions and portray ebb and flow. I move the brush with bold, sweeping gestures. Some of those images are then transferred to fabric or paper. The fabric (or paper) is then squished, folded and layered onto a canvas; some fabrics are draped on to a canvas. The textures create shadows and colorpalettes in motion.

 

b. 1953 Youngstown, Ohio. I immersed myself in Secessionist, Dada, Jugendstil, Abstract Expressionist and Impressionist music, aRt and German/Austrian literature. Studied one semester at Linzer Akademie fur Bildende Kunst,Linz (1971), and at Modeschule Hetzendorf in Vienna (1972-73).

 

Served with U.S. Navy 1976 – 2000. With in-service education benefits, I earned B.S. (University of New YorkRegents - 1981) and M.A. Ed. (George Washington University - 1991) degrees while on active duty. Later, I used G.I.Bill benefits after leaving the service and earned a second undergraduate (B.F.A.) degree at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA

(2010).

 

Few paintings are complete in an afternoon; yet some of my most successful pieces were completed early in my career,and some in a day or two. Most designs now develop after months (or years) of layering over pieces. I always start my paintings with the reckless belief that something wonderful can happen. Oftentimes, it doesn’t work out so I go back to it later…sometimes two or ten more times.

 

I use color to represent things other than things in creating large, sweeping Fields of Color.

 

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