"Do What You Love, Love What You Do"

I was bitten by the art bug at a very young age. Growing up in New Jersey, if I wasn’t out in the yard playing sports with my brothers and friends, I was inside drawing or painting. As far back as I can remember I wanted to be an artist and my parents supported me all the way. Drum lessons ran a distant second to my private art lessons with Fran Shapiro, a graduate of Pratt Institute in New York City. My appetite grew through grade school and high school and I eventually earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, majoring in Studio Art. 

I continued studying at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and subsequently moved to Baltimore. Out of necessity, and as a courtesy to my roommates, my passion for oil painting evolved to a less fragrant and easier-to-clean medium. The approach to planning a watercolor painting appealed to my methodical nature, yet I was challenged by the characteristics of this new medium. I was hooked. 

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Struggling to come up with an original gift idea, I decided to create a watercolor house portrait for my brother's wedding. It was met with such overwhelming response that I wound up commissioning several in the years that followed. Then life and a career happened and watercolors became something I was going to get back to, eventually. After a quarter century in the graphic arts and print industry, 21 years of marriage and 2 kids later, there is no time like the present to pick up the brush. That bug has bitten me once again.