I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in painting in 1983, and received my B.F.A. at Florida State University in 1977. I have lived and painted primarily in Maine since, and also keep studios in both Florida and Ireland.

My subject matter is largely derived from plant and botanical views of nature, some painted in the wild and others from within the studio with a view out the windows.

My work is related to abstract interpretations of plants in nature rather than precise renderings of them. I am inspired by the contrasts and the particularties between the northern forests and fields of Maine and the tropical and sub-tropical conditions found in Florida and in the southwest of Ireland. They each have a strong influence upon me and I am refreshed by this influence at my every return, whatever time of year
it may be.

I find roadside plants and disturbed areas of ground as equally attractive as thickets of wild vegetation that may have gone unnoticed, in some remote spot. It most always comes back to the flora and the deliberate way this part of nature has of carrying on, being amazing and beautiful, and always different — with or without our human influences.

I have recently been experimenting with watery surfaces in harbor areas, with boats on the water and their reflections at various times of the day.

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