I grew up surrounded by wolves and bears (but was not raised by them) in Campbellford Ontario, Canada however since my Mother wasn't terribly fond of all that untamed wildlife or outhouses we all moved back to her civilized hometown of Rochester, NY. The commitment to paint and pursue art took firm hold at age 12 because of a beautiful dream. I've lived up and down the East Coast, travel extensively in the US and Europe, painting the whole way! Besides painting I've been in TV pilots and by happy accident got a role in a movie called "Everybody Wants to be an Italian". I also had an extremely brief career as a Sea Shanty singer/street performer where I learned what stage fright really means, hence running right back to my studio and have stuck to painting and only singing in the shower ever since.

I have exhibited widely over the US and in Canada, been a grateful recipient of grants from the Rochester Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council, enjoyed artist-in-residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland and in the Dune Shacks at the Cape Cod National Seashore. I am represented by the Lyman-Eyer Gallery in Provincetown, MA and an exhibiting member of the Provincetown Art Association Museum and Salmagundi Club in New York City.