Artist, Painter, Watercolor
My specialty is painting moody Vermont forests of rich colored birch trees, created primarily by using spontaneous splashes and splatters of water color paint in a free spirited impressionistic style. My career as a professional artist began upon moving to Vermont in 1980 where I established a small private art studio in my home. I joined the West River Artist Guild and the Chaffee Art Center and began studying and painting with many of the local artists here in the Rutland area. My formal art training began upon taking Biological Illustration through the University of New Hampshire on the Isle of Shoals, just off the coast of Maine. There, I studied the Art of Biological Illustration. My artwork was published and used in the University’s Catalog. It was there and then that I discovered that Art, Natural Science, and Biology were intricately connected and that I loved it all! I then went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Natural Science, and a Masters Degree in Education from Castleton State College. I went on to teach at Fair Haven Union High School for a short while and then transitioned to a career in Environmental Health from which I just recently retired.
My specialty is painting moody Vermont forests of rich colored birch trees, created primarily by using spontaneous splashes and splatters of water color paint in a free spirited impressionistic style. My career as a professional artist began upon moving to Vermont in 1980 where I established a small private art studio in my home. I joined the West River Artist Guild and the Chaffee Art Center and began studying and painting with many of the local artists here in the Rutland area. My formal art training began upon taking Biological Illustration through the University of New Hampshire on the Isle of Shoals, just off the coast of Maine. There, I studied the Art of Biological Illustration. My artwork was published and used in the University’s Catalog. It was there and then that I discovered that Art, Natural Science, and Biology were intricately connected and that I loved it all! I then went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Natural Science, and a Masters Degree in Education from Castleton State College. I went on to teach at Fair Haven Union High School for a short while and then transitioned to a career in Environmental Health from which I just recently retired.