About Me and My Work
I am a lifelong visual artist who began my career at a very young age as a student at the Washington School in Alexandria, VA. I graduated from the Abbott School of Fine and Commercial Art in Washington DC, which I attended on scholarship. I later studied art with Randy Michener at Northern Virginia Community College, which led to me being admitted to American University where I earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.
While I consider printmaking my primary focus, I have worked and exhibited internationally in many media, including painting, drawing, monoprint, and sculpture. My portraiture portfolio includes paintings of US Cabinet members, the Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, six mayors of Manassas, Virginia, and many other public and private commissions in the US and abroad. My works are held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as other public collections, corporate collections, and those of the Institute for Micro Surgery, Moscow, and Accademia d'Arte, Montecatini, Italy.
I serve on the George Mason University Science and Technology Campus Advisory Board and was a founding supporter of the Hylton Performing Arts Center. I live in Manassas, Virginia, where I have maintained my residence and studio near historic downtown since 1957.
