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I have been an artist since before I was born — my parents met as students of The Rhode Island School of Design.

I am largely self-taught, though I have studied at the School at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the The Rhode Island School of Design. I painted for years with watercolors, but oils and acrylics seem to fit well as the natural extension of my handcrafted imagery. While acrylics lack, for me, a certain glow, oils are bound by stricter rules. There are things that can be done with one and not the other.

I have also been a graphic artist for more than twenty years, a profession that lends its tools and ideas to my work as well. The act of making machines tell stories never fails to intrigue me. It re-enforces in my nature the idea that product and process are not mutually exclusive. Rather, the product informs the process that created it.