Bio
My paintings are mostly with oils, but also do watercolors and acrylics. I started oil painting at the age of 16, painting wildlife on paper plates with an oil paint set that a neighbor had given me.
 
Someday I’ll paint that!  Now it’s time. I am inspired by a lifetime of artistic memories, experiences and want to paint the picture.   Retired after 40 years of being advertising art director and graphic designer, I then began to seriously paint.  
 
One of my favorite things to paint is photos of history. Finding old black-and-white photos and paint them in my colors.  Photos that I have taken from the western history places that I’ve discovered.
 
 In high school, I was mostly interested in the art classes and and the drama classes.  My formal art education began after high school at the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, plus 40 years of advertising art direction and marketing.
 
I like coming back to Wickenburg each winter for the art club, it’s helpful members and being able to paint outside in the AZ desert.
 
Some of my work is exhibited at the Platte Canyon Artist Guild’s Fall Fine Art Show in Bailey, Colorado, also at Wickenburg Art Club’s Fine Art Show and in their gallery.