Biography

Like many children of my generation, my first camera was a Kodak Brownie box camera that used 120 or 620 roll film and flash bulbs. Ten cameras later, I found myself on a flight to Quito, Ecuador to fulfill my life-long dream of exploring The Galapagos Islands, a small chain of islands 600 miles off the coast of South America with species of wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Upon my return home I sorted thru the 3000 images I had taken and found they spoke to me in a way that I had never experienced before and resonated inside of me each and every time I viewed them.

With the invaluable mentoring, influence and encouragement of such nationally-known artists as Nancy Rotenberg, Bruce Mondschain, Lester Picker, Paul Elson, Scott Fishman and Carrie Goldman Segall, I began my pilgrimage of creativity and learned to walk slower, observe as well as see and find beauty in the sunrise mist from the peak of Peru’s Machu Picchu, as well as in the mirrored reeds of a Wisconsin marshland.

Over the past several years, my award-winning work has been on display at such fine art juried festivals as Gold Coast (Chicago), Wells Street (Chicago), Chicago Tribune Michigan Avenue (Chicago), Fountain Square (Evanston), North Shore (Skokie), Chicago Botanic Gardens (Glencoe), Promenade of the Arts (Arlington Heights), Buffalo Grove (Buffalo Grove), Lincolnshire (Lincolnshire), Chicago Flower & Garden Show (Chicago), New Buffalo Artigras (New Buffalo, MI) and Third Ward (Milwaukee, WI).

Thank you for viewing my work. I hope you find it a feast for your eyes & nourishment for your soul.

“Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”- Arthur Schopenhauer