Background
My families’ roots come from the Northeast of America where I was born.
I was brought west to California, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
After studying art and languages at the University of California at Santa Cruz and graduating from UC Berkeley I spent some time working in Saudi Arabia, then followed a three-year program in Graphic Design study in Germany.
Moving from Germany to New York City in the 80’s I worked as a graphic designer there for 6 years, then moved to London with my partner and continued freelancing as a graphic designer there while beginning to raise a family. While living in London I taught Graphic Design at the Buckinghamshire New University in High Wycombe.
After London, we lived in Maine for four years, then Berkeley, California for 22 years, breaking up our time in California with an interim four years in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where I followed graduate level painting courses and exhibited my work both as an individual and as a collaborator.
In 2021 we returned to Maine to settle down in the City of Portland, where I paint plain air watercolors, acrylics on canvas, and teach acrylic painting at the Roux and Cyr Gallery downtown.
At this time, I am most inspired by the cliffs, rocks and woods of the Maine coast as well as open water swimming scenes.
Please enjoy my artwork, there will be more and different inspirations added as I make them.
BIO –
1978 – 1982 • Berkeley, California • Degree in Art/Art History/German language from University of California, Santa Cruz and graduate of University of California Berkeley.
1982 – 1985 • Germany • Graphic Design Studies – 3 years in the Faculty of Design (Pforzheim University)
1985 – 1991 • New York City • Freelance Graphic Designer – Worked on diverse projects including book design, packaging graphics, newspaper advertising, public relations, ad campaigns and direct mail. Followed continuing courses at School of Visual Arts including Photoshop, Computer Publishing Design, Illustration, Typography and Painting.
1991 – 1994 • London, England • Freelance Graphic designer for Various Design and Advertising agencies (packaging and exhibitions), practiced ongoing portrait and landscape painting. Teaching experience: Computer Graphic Design Instructor at Buckinghamshire New University (High Wycombe, UK)
1994 – 1998 • Freeport, Maine • Employed at LLBean in the catalog art department, practiced ongoing portrait and landscape painting.
1998 – 2011 • Berkeley, California • Freelance graphic for various private clients; advertising, web design, packaging and book design.
2011– 2015 • Amsterdam, the Netherlands • Full- time studio Artist/Painter, attended continuing professional painting classes at the Wackers Academie of Art in Amsterdam.
2015 – 2021 • Berkeley, California • Freelance graphic designer for print and web at the Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Worked as framer apprentice at Stoll Framing Shop. Presented solo acrylic painting shows at Stoll Custom Framing on Solano Avenue, was participating artist at Shoh Gallery on Gillman in Berkeley, took continuing Advanced Painting Course with Larry Robinson at University of California, Berkeley.
2021 – 2026 • Portland, Maine • Full time studio artist. Work has been featured at de Bramble Gallery, Roux and Cyr Gallery, and Artemis Gallery. Comprehensive Solo shows for the last 3 years at the Crocker House Country Inn, Solo show at Belleflower Brewery (Cove Street) in 2025, as well as contributor to UMVA (Union of Maine Visual Artists) exhibitions in Portland and Midcoast, Maine. Principal Organizer of the juried UMVA art show at the Portland Public Library in April – June 2025. Teaching experience: Acrylic Painting Instructor at Roux and Cyr International Art Gallery in 2024 and 2025.