I’ve had many passions in my life. At times I’ve focused on emotional healing techniques, on astrology, piano, illustration, painting, and the study of quattro and cinquecento Italian art history with Lisbeth Castelnuovo-Tedesco at UCLA and in conversation with Carlo Pedretti, the foremost authority on Leonardo da Vinci. 

The site focuses on only two of these areas, illustration and painting, leaving out other major areas, including working for several years in magazine design and development at Time Incorporated and Hearst Publications, and acting as a founder and partner in a highly successful textile-design company in Los Angeles. 

The paintings shown here vary in style from an almost photographic realism when I was working on what I call “portraits” of NYC sculpture to intimate, totally abstract works I think of as internal landscapes. Each abstract work captures my feelings on the day in which the painting was created. As with almost all abstract work, the viewer needs to spend more time taking it in than with the realistic work. Sadly, too few people take time to truly appreciate the beauty and power of abstract art. 

My work has been shown in numerous NYC galleries and my realistic work has been sold through the prestigious Meredith Long Galleries in Houston. This gallery, which closed shortly after Long’s death in 2020, showed some of America’s finest painters, from George Inness to Richard Diebenkorn and Helen Frankenthaler, so I couldn’t have been in better company.    

I was fortunate to have been trained by some of the 20th and 21st century’s finest realist painters, including artists like Jacob Collins at the prestigious Water Street Atelier, Ronald Sherr, and the great Nelson Shanks, who painted many well-known figures, including Lady Di, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II. The inspiration for my abstract work came from the influence of several abstract artists, including Arthur Dove, Thodoros Stamos, and Terry Winters.

The illustration work on this site, including prints, was done both for U.S. companies and for international commercial markets.

And now, having moved in 2020 from New York City to Athens, Greece, I’m gradually setting up a new studio space and am increasingly interested in the idea of using subjects from this ancient civilization—myths, history, art, etc. I’m envisioning this work as quite abstract, but as often happens what I produce will be revealed to me as I work. As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote approximately 2,500 years ago, “There is nothing permanent except change.”