Art studies at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Rouen, France, under the direction of the late noted artists

Jacques Ramondot and Robert Savary, (Grand Prix de Rome).

Masters, School of Architecture, University of Montreal

2003 - Present; Participating in New Haven Open Studios

2004 - University of Bridgeport, drawing and painting exhibit, University Gallery, Bridgeport, CT

2002 - Portrait Competition, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT

2002 - University of Bridgeport, oils and gouaches exhibit, University Gallery, Bridgeport, CT

2001 - Selected in the Faber Birren National and International Competition, Stamford, CT

2001 - Gouaches compositions, group exhibit at Untitled Space Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2000 - Paier College of Art, professors’ exhibit at the Duracell Corporation Headquarters, Bethel, CT

1998 - 97th annual competition, landscape, first prize from the David T. Langrock foundation,

New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT

1997 - Members’ Exhibit, oil paintings, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, New Haven, CT

1996 - 95th annual painting exhibition, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT

1995 - Selected in the Faber Birren National and International Competition, Stamford, CT

Gallery at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center. Judge Cora Rosevear, Museum of Modern Art, NY

1994 - Winter Salon, Greenwich Historical Society, Bush-Holley Museum Complex, Cos Cob, CT

1994 - Still Life oil paintings, Stamford Art Association Gallery, Honorable Mention, Stamford, CT

1994 - Group exhibit, works on paper, Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT

1993 - 92nd Annual exhibition, oil paintings, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT

1993 - Group exhibit, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT

1993 - Selected in the Faber Birren National and International Competition, Stamford, CT

Stamford Historical Society Museum. Judge Lisa Messinger, 20th Century Art, Metropolitan Museum, NY

Artists Statement

Figurative art does not have to be descriptive or search for the impressionist “la petite sensation.”
It belongs in-between the literal and abstract through a relationship of planes, rhythms, and contrast; as a reinterpretation,
or re-imagining, of our surroundings. The emotional and the intellectual are expressed through composition
where everything has to hold together, and be constructed, even under an effortless appearance.

Texture layering and pigmentation should be the result of in-depth development and not as a visceral gratifying
surface effect.