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Thank you for taking the time to read about me and my work.
 Life
is good, and I am the happiest person in the world. I love to paint and I do it for a living.
I've been drawing and painting since I could hold a crayon. I grew up on the
north shore of Long Island and was involved in every art activity available to me. My parents supported my interest in art and encouraged me to always be
my best. I have always had, and continue to have very talented, creative and supportive people around me.
 I
traveled around the country in my late teens and ended up in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I began my art degree. Much of my education was paid for
through scholarships and awards, and I worked in a restaurant to pay the rest of the way (hence all the food paintings.)
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studied under noted Professors Gary Kiemig in drawing and Dave Yust in painting. I took more credits in these areas than I needed for my degree,
and both professors asked me to be a teaching assistant in their classes, which I did for five semesters. During this time, I was painting and drawing in
all my free time - often late into the night. Only in retrospect do I see how fortunate I was to have had the opportunity to spend all that time doing what I loved.
 Color
is my joy! I love to play with color relationships and see how they change when they're next to different colors. One of the most awful paintings I ever did was the one I learned the most from. The assignment was to mix
200 colors of all the same value and do a painting. In a black and white photograph, the perfect painting would show no difference from color to color. While none of us accomplished this, my painting - bad as it was -
came pretty close. I also found that my painting looked profoundly different in incandescent light than it did in fluorescent light - which is something all artists struggle with.
 Twenty years later, I continue to explore the phenomenon of color relationships through mostly landscapes and still lifes. I've been asked if I get bored painting every day, and I answer with a resounding, NO! I wake up every morning
excited to learn new things through my artwork. And most importantly, as Matisse once said, "I like to spread happiness through my paintings."
 Life is good.
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