November, 2025. I have lived several lives in several places since--several years after graduating from Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island with a degree in architecture--the focus of my life turned to painting. 

This pursuit has taken me to the remote French village of Argenton-Chateau to study figurative art and contemporary realism at Studio Escalier, where I met my primary teachers: Michelle Tully, Timothy Stotz, Tobias Hall, and David Baird. The road has wound (and re-wound) also through New York City, Paris, Santa Fe, and Rhode Island again. Painting has become the only constant through the changing seasons of my life. Through my prodigality has the act of placing one note of color next to another, time after time after time, become the most salient form of expression, the most subtle way to share 

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VISION is not a sense, but an experience, and experience is the making of MEANING. One opens up their eyes to the world, has a vision, and translates that vision into notes of color. As verbal creatures, we're predisposed to forget that language is only one way to convey the meaning of experience, only one map of reality. I believe that painting is a worthwhile practice because, if my skill increases, I can move higher than the literal, the sentimental, the verbal, and (like a musician) communicate meaning with something more primeval than words. 

My objective as a composer of color (which, I think, ties me back to architecture) is to build little worlds within the picture plane, and I see my subjects (both animate and inanimate) as occupants of these worlds: real beings, with real souls, living in a reality mediated by oil, minerals, and solvents.