For me it was never about talent, it was always about curiosity and exploration. My Mother enrolled me in Art Museum classes when I was 6, because I was always drawing. Since then it was a building up out of one painting to the next, until painting became a way of life.
I offer many decades of rich painting and teaching experience, an artist who cares about the growth of my students over time.. I teach the new kind of seeing learned from painting itself; I teach this in the greater context of teaching the liberal arts, and not in a context of training for a profession.
I have taught artists from all over the world, learning from them how they see. Also, there is a new younger generation of creative artists who are so technologically astute in their output that they have taught me how they express themselves in that language. Our work together has been collaborative as well as culturally exchanged. I have taught on the college level in a variety of materials, including carved wood, sand-casting, (in bronze, iron and aluminum), collage, (corrugated cardboard as well as 4’ wood carvings), drawing, (oil crayon from both the landscape as well as figure and/or still-life), as well as figure modeling in clay. The study of color and knowledge of painting are my strengths. Like music, color is a universal language.
I have been a "Visiting-Artist-in-Residence" at American University, (D.C.), in Umbra, Italy, teaching painting to undergraduate seniors, a 'Guest Critic" at The Vermont Studio Center since 1991-2013; and several times at The New York Studio School, (teaching ‘Drawing Marathons)." I traveled through the U.S. Information Agency to teach painting at Universities in Honduras, Colombia, Malta and met with Artists in South Africa through the Augusta Savage Gallery at UMASS. I have taught painting at cancer centers and also jails.
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