I began learning art techniques in the mid 1960’s with Pennsylvania artist Andrew Palencar. In the 70's I studied painting and illustration techniques under popular animal artists Robert C. Kray and George Luther Schelling. I won a 1st place in oils and acrylics for a train painting in the US Navy-wide Juried Art Show in Norfolk VA in 1974. I was selected to develop murals related to the Nation’s Bicentennial in Luzerne County, PA in 1976. I won Best In Show at the Plymouth, PA juried art competition in 1977. In the 70’s, I received many commissions for portraits and other works for private estates
including a portrait from life for the estate of the actor Jack Palance.
After moving to Georgia in 1982 I began painting in egg tempera which I had started to learn in the 1970’s. Georgia’s landscape, with its
deteriorating farm houses, old plantations, colorful earth and plant life became my chief interest. Painting the vanishing old farmhouses,
cotton mills and other representative structures which reflect the colors and textures of nature has moved me to represent natures way of
reclaiming what man has put on the earth. In most of my personal work, I try to achieve a sense of proportion between nature and manmade
structures. I also work in India ink with a crow quill pen and occasionally in oils, watercolor and other medium.
In 1989, my egg tempera painting “Georgia Lace” was chosen for purchase by the Georgia Arts Acquisition Program. Since then I have had several co-op and one-man shows in Georgia, both in Madison and in other locations such as Millidgeville, Cartersville and Atlanta.
In 1997, I received an honorable mention in the Georgia Watercolor Society’s annual juried show in Gainesville, Georgia. In 1998, my
painting “In The Roundhouse” was juried into the top 100 touring exhibit by the National Foundation for the Arts for the Parks in
