Artist Bio
I am now focusing my energies on a body of work comprised of bird drawings and paintings from my travels to Costa Rica, Maine, Missouri, and my home state of CT. I am creating large graphite drawings in preparation for equally large mixed media watercolor paintings. The style I am working on is a quick, high energy application of intense watercolor, acrylic and gouache pigments which serve as a background for my detailed bird renderings. The whole process is very labor intensive and charged with pure vibrant pigments. I let the dynamics of the color dictate the direction that my painting will go and then decide what composition will fit best in this format.
I was born in Staten Island, New York and began pursuing my art at the age of sixteen, where I studied drawing and painting at the Art Students League in NYC and Madison, Connecticut. I completed my undergraduate studies in Fine Arts at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York and completed my Masters in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT. I received my Certification in Botanical and Natural Science Illustration from the New York Botanical Garden.
I have exhibited widely throughout New England and have been the recipient of awards for my illustrations from The Smithsonian Institution,The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, The Courage Art Center, The Institute of Children’s Literature, Fairfield Woman Magazine and Gordon Fraser Publications. I currently teach drawing and painting workshops in nature centers, schools and museums. My studio is in Oxford, CT.
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