Artist Bio

When I was only 5 years old, my family moved from our home town of Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the island of Aruba.  It was then and there, surrounded by all that tropical beauty and intensity, and unique Caribbean culture, that I first began to express it through art.  I drew and worked with modeling clay.

 Back in Baton Rouge, throughout school and into college, I drew and learned pastels.  A tour in the Navy allowed me to experience some exotic places in the Pacific.

 After the Navy, I attended Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida.  I remained in Sarasota, and for the next 25 years or so, I worked in advertising art, as an architectural renderer and a mural painter.  I have done work for U.S. Homes, Harcourt-Brace, Taylor-Woodrow, Cunard Lines, Chris Craft, and Disney.  All throughout those years I continued to paint after hours and on weekends.  I glaze with acrylics on panels, which enables me to achieve effects not possible on canvas.

 Today, retired from the advertising world, I am able to paint full time and travel.  My work has been shown by galleries in Florida, the Caribbean and California.

 ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Tropical and Nautical Art have always been my lifelong passion and I want to share it with the world.