RESUME | BIOGRAPHY | STATEMENT

I began painting in my early teens. I am primarily self-taught, driven by a need to paint and by my love of painting.

Growing up, I spent summers in Vermont surrounded by farmland. This environment had a tremendous influence on my sensibilities as a painter, appealing to me for its combination of untouched natural beauty alongside land cultivated and altered by man. While I admire the Hudson River School painters for their idealized depiction of the landscape, I’m particularly fond of the later work of George Inness. Moving away from romantic idealization, his interpretation of nature celebrated human interaction with the land through farming and agriculture, though man himself is seldom present in the composition. To this day, I still live in a farm community, and this landscape continues to inspire my work.

My mother collected American antiques, and I grew up surrounded by these furnishings, which came to populate my still life compositions. I love antiques for the unique history each object offers—the story of who owned it, where it travelled, and how it survived. For me, these humble objects also represent the profound beauty of the commonplace. Andrew Wyeth’s work speaks to me through his intimate depictions of everyday life, which are at once iconically American, yet universal. I hope to convey these sensibilities in my work.

My paintings have been exhibited widely in New York City at venues including Gallery Henoch, the Salmagundi Club, and the National Arts Club, as well as on Long Island at the Parrish Museum, Water Mill Museum, Heckscher Museum, and the Islip Art Museum, among others. I attended classes at the Art Students League and Parsons School of Design, and studied printmaking with master printer Craig Zammiello. I live and work in Water Mill, New York, and travel often to paint in Vermont and the Adirondacks.