My career began in 1959 at New York’s High School of Art and Design. There I developed a passion for art history and mastered the skills required for creating my own art.

My knowledge, skills and talent grew substantially at the famous School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

Throughout my years in training, when abstract expressionism ruled the art world, my focus remained on figurative subject matter. When I paint a musician, I want you to hear him as well as see him. When I paint a landscape, I want you to feel it and hear it and smell it.

When I paint a woman, I want you to (think you) know what she’s thinking. And when I paint with a roar of impossible color, I want you to exclaim, “Yes, I get that!”