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Having only pursued the rudiments of art instruction as a child and through high school and college, I am essentially a self-taught artist. Basic art instruction requirements in the grammar schools of Pittsfield, MA and Pittsfield High School gave way to the beginnings of a minor in Art studied at what was then North Adams State College, North Adams, MA, now the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. However, I did not pursue formal art school training and, after college, began a period of exploring my inner muse through music and the recording of my compositions.
In 2003, I changed direction and began to express myself more often through the visual arts, starting to paint with watercolors, then trying pastels, and finally settling with oils. In a short period of time, I have covered a good deal of ground in regards to subject matter and themes, finding my way as most artists do. At present, I’ve been working on a series of still lifes painted with a palette knife on masonite prepared with black gesso and pumice.
My artwork has won awards in both pastel and oils. I have served as a Board member and as the Publicity Chair of the Housatonic Valley Art League, formerly the Sheffield Art League, Sheffield, MA, and have overseen a monthly exhibition of solo shows of artists from the League as well. I am an Elected Member of the Kent Art Association, Kent, CT, an honor requiring an artist to be juried into a number of the Association’s exclusive juried shows. I am also a member of the Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY and have been juried into it’s prestigious annual juried show three times to date.
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