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Born in Ft. Lauderdale Florida in 1961, I have studied art as my life's work. After starting out with a BFA in photography, I switched to printmaking in 1986 and have worked, using it, with some of the 20th century's biggest artists.

My career started 1n 1976 as an apprentice to 5 women Artisans at Calabash Pottery and Clayworks in Fayettville Arkansas. This was followed by an 18 month apprenticeship with sculptor Frank Williams on a public, WPA like, installation project in the fayetteville park system. From there I entered the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for the first half of my college career. It did not take long to realize this school had limited resources to the fine arts department to Fund football. Which is a main priority there.
I finished my degree at the University of South Florida, earning a BFA with Honors. I was then hired by USF's Graphic Studio. A Fine Art atelier. The shop run by Donald Saff, for research into printmaking and the arts. I worked on projects there by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Robert Raushenberg.

On leaving Florida I moved to New York to work for Ken Tyler Graphics and manage his Screen Printing department. After leaving his employ I managed Studio Heinrici in Manhattan until I open my own printing studio in 1992. My first job was for the Smithsonian Museum . I worked with artist Luis Cruz Azaceta. We worked together collaboratively on a print based on his painting "Fragile Crossing". Which is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian and the national gallery. http://artcollectorsprogram.org/TheCollection/fine_art_prints/azaceta.htm#

I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury in late 1992. As part of my rehabilitation I studied computers and their application to print and photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology and at Pratt Manhattan with computer artist Lawrence Gartel.

I was chased out of Manhattan shortly after 9-11 by escalating real estate prices and moved to New Orleans to open a new shop just in time for Katrina. I now have a shop in Texarkana Texas and plan to move it to the Eureka Springs Arkansas area, near the Crystal Bridges museum, within the next 5 years.


My main inspiration has been To try and share the joy I find in color. It remains so entrancing to me. Being a visually disabled artist (I survived a Traumatic Brain Injury in 1992)COLOR became more important to me as I lost visual acuity.