I learned to paint by being immersed in art for most of my life.  My father taught art at the college level for over three decades and continues  his passion in his retirement.

I received a Bachelors degree from SUNY Brockport and later a Master’s degree from Duquesne University.  Through six years of higher education I studied a variety of subjects, but as fate would have it I entered the workforce selling art supplies.

In 1996 my soon to be wife Eileen and I moved to Raleigh, NC and I began working at Jerry’s Artarama. Initially I began working on catalogs and advertisements and saw the company grow leaps and bounds.  I quickly began wearing different hats and and grew into the position of Marketing Director.

Through my life’s journey in my father’s studio and my professional career at Jerry’s Artarama I learned countless things about art theories, techniques, principles and practices. My never ending pursuit is putting these ideas onto canvas.

I love Art in all of its forms.   Painting has opened up a whole new world and helps to me to see things that might have always been there, but I just never bothered to look at them.

Juried Shows

Fine Art League of Cary 2008 14th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

"Neuse River at Buffaloe Road #2"

Visual Art Exchange of Raleigh

Microscosmos Show - 2008

"Microscosmos #1"

"Microscosmos #2"

Durham Art Guild

54th Annual Juried Art Show - 2008

"Beidler Forest #3"

"Falls Lake at Rollingview" 

Raleigh Fine Arts Society

2009 North Carolina Artists Exhibition

"Beidler Forest #7"

Fine Art League of Cary 2009 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

"Croatan Forest #1"

Rocky Mount Arts Center 52nd National Multi-Media Juried Art Exhibition - 2009

"Beidler Forest #6"

"Dupont Forest #1"  - First Place

Wayne County Art's Council

30th Annual National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition - 2009 

"Croatan Forest #2"

"Whitewater Falls #3"

Visual Art Exchange

3rd Annual SCOPE The North Carolina Landscape - 2009

"Flanners Beach"

Radius 250 - 2009

artspace, Richmond, VA 

"Looking Glass Falls"  - Honorable Mention

Visual Art Exchange

Seeing Red - 2009

"Linville River"

Visual Art Exchange

NEW Show- 2009

"Creek at Durant Park #2"

North Carolina State Fair

Juried Show

"Eno River"

Someplace Like Home

Carolina Color Gallery

"A Shopping Spree" Juried Show

"One View from my Back Porch"

Durham Art Guild

55th Annual Juried Art Show - 2009

"Croatan Forest #2"

"Whitewater Falls #3"

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary, NC

Small Treasures Show - March- April 2010

"Grassy Creek Falls #3"

20th Annual Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition

d'Art Center - Norfolk, VA

"Flanners Beach"

Wayne County Art's Council

31st Annual National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition - 2010

"Falls Lake Near Blue Jay Point"

"Crabtree Creek: A View from the Greenway"

Rocky Mount Arts Center 533r National Multi-Media Juried Art Exhibition - 2010

"Looking Glass Falls" - Merit Award

Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

4th Annual SCOPE The North Carolina Landscape - 2010

"Quarry at the Eno River"

"Pocosin Lakes" - First Place

National Society of Painters in Acrylic and Casein

56th Annual Exhibition - May, June 2010

Salamagundi Club, New York City

"Gablesland Trail Along the Eno"

Solo and Group Shows

Sunflower Studios and Gallery

August, September  2009

Wake Forest Area Artists' Studio Tour

September 2009

Tuxedo Gallery at Tuxedo Junction

Wake Forest, NC

January, February 2010 

"Raleigh" at Capital Bank Plaza

February, March 2010

Arts Council of Wayne County

February, March 2010

Visual Art Exchange (Raleigh)

Exchange Gallery

May 2010

Town of Cary, NC

Page-Walker Arts and History Center

May, June 2010 

Festival for the Eno - Durham, NC

"Best 2D Artist in the Show"

July 2010

Horace Williams House

Chapel Hill, NC

October 2010

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Nature Art Gallery

Spring 2011