Born in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940. I am a self taught artist. My teachers were master artists who illuminated my vision, changed my perception of reality with passion , beauty and humanity. Throughout my childhood I drew with pencils and later with pen and ink. In my teens I painted with watercolors and worked with oils in my 20's. In 1968, I began exploring dimensionality and phrasing concepts as images with acrylics and pastels. Acrylics became my chosen medium.

In 1973 I did the pen and ink illustrations for my then partners book, "The Passionate Mind", by Joel Kramer. In the early '80s, one of my closest friends was Leonilde Carabba , a successful European painter from Milano, Italy. She introduced me to new mas and techniques and encouraged me in my newly focused identification as a painter and artist. In those years she was instrumental in my learning to see the validity of experimentation and play in the dialogue of creative expression, and painting as a process.

In 1984, while experimenting with techniques and materials on small pieces, I discovered a way of working ink and acrylic which interfaced in a crystalline and ‘molecular’ level. The interaction I saw was exquisite in detail and dimensionality. Later, I began to take macro photos on my paintings in order to share my vision and delight.

I was a member of the Bolinas Artists Cooperative and, later, the Bolinas Museums' Living Artists Project, the Marin Arts Council, and the San Francisco Art Commissions registry. In 1993, “Awakening in The House of Man”, won 3rd Place award in the Marin County Fair Fine Art Exhibition. In 1997 immediately after a month long Retrospective show, 20 of my major works were badly damaged or destroyed in a large fire. My focus on painting intensified and my participation in showing waned. In 1999 I discovered 3-D glasses which operated in a new color based technology and began to incorporate that 3-D perspective into my work. In spite of the obvious drawback of using 3-D glasses, I love this dimensional expansion. The micro dimensionality I developed in the ‘80s merges with this macro vision in the 21st century! ("Fascinating") !