Carnations in Can Painting

I have been a painter from the time others convinced me I was an artist. Having painted, living and traveling extensively in the United States and abroad, I was once labeled a "regional artist" by the Asheville Art Museum before beginning to work more abstractly, concentrating on various versions of expressionism. The artists I am most influenced by include Picasso, Matisse, the Fauvists and the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s. I am privately collected in the United States, the UK, and in France. I am represented by the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina and in private collections. My art education was intense at Washington University in St. Louis and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (PAFA) where I received a full scholarship.