Contemplation Print

I was born and raised in Northeast Ohio and completed my first and only mural to date as a toddler, drawing with crayons on the wall paper of my family’s living room. My grandfather was a self-taught artist who painted murals in churches in Pennsylvania. I grew up surrounded by his figurative and portrait paintings in oil, growing familiar with the scents of turpentine and oil paint with each visit to his home. Today, the heavy wooden easel that once bore the weight of my grandfather’s canvases now bear my own. My love of realism and classical figurative work is very much influenced by the Masters of the Renaissance. Capturing a person’s physical likeness goes beyond the building of figure and form on a canvas. The energy of a person’s essence and soul needs to be felt within the brushstrokes. I love painting people through all the myriads of emotion, subtle, intense and everything in between.