The creative process was discovered late in my life. Now I feel a need to paint everyday, as one needs to breathe everyday. After many years as a music educator I began to compose music. Several works were published, including choral works set to the poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The creative awakening of composing led me to a desire to paint. I attended classes and studied privately at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, the Provincetown Museum School and the DeCordova Museum School and developed an intense passion for painting. It is the missing piece in my life for which I was searching.

My paintings are a transfer of my emotions, an interconnectedness with the energies that exist within all aspects of life and forces of nature. Painting and composing music are extensions of my deep emotions, which create a tremendous thrust of energy from within.

I enjoy painting outside where I can paint with my entire body in an unrestricted space, where the wind, sunlight and sounds of nature influence where the paint settles on the surface, and where sounds and rhythms in my head and heart coincide with the colors, textures and movement of the paint. The painting evolves through all these energies naturally, without premeditation.

Professional Affiliations, Exhibitions and Memberships

2010
     Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, Solo Exhibit
     Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art, Group Exhibit and Silent Auction, August 2010
     Beth Israel Hospital Harvard Medical School, Group Exhibit and Silent Auction
     Provincetown Art Museum, Group Exhibit and Silent Auction

2009
     HC Studio, Brookline Village, Boston, MA, Solo Exhibit
     29 Newbury, Boston, MA, Solo Exhibit
     Provincetown Museum, Silent Auction, Group Exhibition
     Sovereign Bank, Cambridge, MA, Solo Exhibit
     Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Group Exhibition
     Publication, The Open Studios Press, Studio Visit Magazine, Spring 2009

2008
     National Juried Competition, The Open Studios Press, Juror: Michael Klein
     Provincetown Art Museum Silent Auction
     Cambridge Art Association, Northeast Prize Show,
          Juror: Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
     The Bank of Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA Solo Exhibit
     Beth Israel Hospital Harvard Medical School, Group Exhibition and Silent Auction
     Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Group Exhibit Illuminations

2007 - present
     DeCordova Museum Corporate Art Program
          The Watermark Residence, Cambridge, MA
          Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston, MA
          Harvard Management Company, Boston, MA
          Accenture, Boston, MA
          Goulston & Storrs Attorneys at Law, Boston, MA
          Clark & Elbing, LLP, Boston, MA
          Centermark Properties, Boston, MA
          Sanofi-Aventis, Cambridge, MA
          CombinatoRx, Cambridge, MA

2007
     Provincetown Art Museum, Juried Member's Exhibition, Juror: James Hull
     51 Walden The Performing Arts Center, Solo Exhibit, Concord, MA

2006
     Cotuit Center for the Arts, Group Exhibition

Cambridge Art Asociation
Arts Foundation of Cape Cod
Truro Center for the Arts
Provincetown Summer Museum School
DeCordova Museum School
Concord Art Association