Schooling in design led me into the city planning profession. After 33 years, I now pursue oil painting.
 Like a lot of artists, I was drawing at an early age.
 My folk artist-Grandmother encouraged my drawing and artwork
 but the rest of my world pushed me towards the mainstream, i.e. something useful.
 I grew up getting training and work experience in mechanical drawing,
 architectural drawing and rendering, technical illustration,
 and landscape/urban design.
 From jr. high through my college years I was able to utilize my artistic skills in these rather technical areas.
 A college art appreciation course first exposed me to urban design...
 and, my career in city planning gave me innumerable opportunities to apply design principles
 of architecture, landscape architecture,
 and the graphic and visual arts. Aesthetics in city planning was always my greatest interest.

Sharon Yatzko’s work, a very talented watercolorist, first attracted me to some serious exercises in painting.
 Working with Sharon led me to know my attraction to color.
This, coupled with my recent learning experiences with Ken Auster
 and Stan Capon has given me the encouragement to pursue my craving to paint.

I am attracted to what nature designs, its strength in creation of unparalleled beauty,
 its power of evolution and its ability to swallow up what man leaves unattended.
 As an artist, my interests are still tied to the belief that we can do much better
 at fitting into the natural environment and at building urban settlements of a higher standard.