My interest in being an artist was evident by age 8. In third grade I began sketching my classmates during the droning voice of geography and history lessons. As a result, my myopic view of the world continues. I still like to paint the people around me. That creates urban drama, which dictates my contemporary subject matter. When, over the years, my work was compared to Edward Hopper, I finally viewed his work. Very flattered!

Formal education: University of Colorado, and University of Texas, receiving awards and honors form both schools in the early to mid 1970's.

I fell slowly in love with the Seattle area...not a match for the hospitality of my home towns, Houston and New Orleans. As fate would have it, a great place to raise my two sons, both now in college at UW schools. Consequently, I get to brag about my own rites of passage, and the "gift" of teaching teenagers. Please visit the arts-umbrella website where I have taught for almost a decade, in Bothell, WA. I look forward to beginning these teen workshops at CVG.

My praise for Collective Visions Gallery, the talent within, is immense. I quote poet William Carlos Williams, "the silly world of memory, the silly world of history, the world of imagination...save for the little central hole of eye itself into which we dare to stare too hard.....things that imagination feeds upon...startle us anew. " God love us!!! And bravo our stubborn persistance to keep making it into art, which, at best, is not very convenient or user-friendly. We do what we do,because we must! That is our gift to the world. Cheers!