I was born in Brooklyn, New York and have degrees from art schools in Boston and Los Angeles, including a PhD from the Victorian College of the Arts. While teaching in the arts for the past eighteen years in both the US and Australia - currently employed at the La Trobe College of Art & Design, I have had several one-person shows and participated in many group shows.

Here is an excerpt from my most recent show in May, 2014:

“I continue to find grappling with ‘abstract’ imagery of primary concern, when forms coalesce into fully recognizable and therefore nameable shapes on the canvas, I remove them immediately. As our subconscious is constantly searching to provide explanations for what colours smeared on a two-dimensional surfaces are depicting, I am able to hover near a ‘reveal’. This tension allows me the opportunity to manipulate colour and value into forms that defy easy descriptions.

Abstraction, for me, is not arrived at through a pre-determined plan or notion, rather through actions and reactions. The first stroke, palette knife or finger that touches the white canvas is the first foray into a long series of gradual resolutions. Any attempt at pre-determining the colour, mood or ‘point’ of a painting, is repelled by the initial contact with the surface, and thereafter a dialogue takes place within the painting, so intentions become subservient."