Painting is my second act.

After a 30-year corporate career, I returned to art, my college major. Immediately I became absorbed in and focused on the visual process; time flew by in the studio. Although the product seemed disappointing at first, I was so engrossed in the process that I knew I had come home.  

Now, "10,000 hours" later, I make portrait, still life, and landscape paintings. My work is representational, and most often from direct observation.  The process is a joyful meditation!

Painting Education

• Cambridge Center Studio School oil painting: 2000-present.

• Westport Art Group plein air classes: 2000-present.

• Concord Art Association workshop with Stanley Bielen: 2017.

• Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA oil painting: 2006.

• Radcliffe Seminars and Lesley College watercolor courses: 2001-2003.

• Hollins University, BA Art History, studio classes: 1961-1964.

Exhibitions

• Gallery at Four, Tiverton Four Corners, RI, Group Show 2019, 2021

• Gallery 1019, Tiverton RI, featured artist: 2018.

• Concord Art Association juried shows: 2016, 2018.

• South Coast Artists Open Studios: 2014-2022.

• Cambridge Center Studio School juried shows: 2010-2022.

• Sakonnet Collective juried show: 2015.

• Little Compton Community Center Juried shows: 2008-2022.

• Westport Land Trust one-person show: 2013.

• Maud Morgan Arts Small Works juried show: 2012.

• Westport Art Group exhibitions since 2003.