About the Artist

A bit about me...

        Thank you for taking a look at my paintings.  I will give you a brief summary of who I am and  how I work.  I graduated from Wheaton College (Massachusetts) in 1992 with a BA in Music. After graduation, I pursued both music and the visual arts.  My artistic training took place in Massachusetts with Robert Scott Jackson.  I then travelled to Florence Italy to study with Charles H. Cecil at the Charles H. Cecil Studios, and with C. Daniel Graves at the Florence Academy of Art.  In 2006, I merged my areas of study to synthesize music and painting. I first exhibited these paintings as "Seeing Music".  These paintings seek to translate what is beautiful and moving in the language of sound into the language of sight.  After studying a piece of music, I select the element or passage I want to paint. I then "conduct the music" with a pen to draw the shape, energy, and direction of the music. Then I apply the color I "see" in the music. It is a very real sense, portraiture.  The resulting painting is a portrait of the music, studied by a listener and revealed to the viewer.