Artist Highlight

"I was born on the island of Manhattan, New York City and learned early about the peoples of our planet. New York is a melting pot with so much diversity. People, cultures, music, art and architecture. I started my art path when I was 8 years old, I began taking art classes at age 13 won my a first place award in a New York City street festival for the oil painting called “Red Barn in the Snow”. At 16 I sold my first oil painting to a New York City art dealer and at 18 began to take art classes at Pratt Institute Saturday Morning classes.  When I was 18, I applied to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn  and was accepted and majored in Fine Arts.

I love to paint with my oil paints on large sized canvas.   My intention is to bring the viewer INTO the paintings, feeling the life force that nature so abundantly shares with me.  This is where the artist steps out and the magic between the viewer and his /her inner self occurs.  This is what I am thankful for, to be a vehicle for. To make the connection for the individual to his SELF so that he too can witness the power of Spirit through the Gift I have been given to share."