I was born in Boston and spent much of my early life there, never thinking I would one day make art. After experiencing several life-altering events in my personal history, I began painting with all the fervent intensity of the mountain-building character played by Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That intensity eventually led me to study painting at Massachusetts College of Art. 

Years later, after experimenting with many mediums, styles and forms, I developed The Running Stitch series, bringing together several aspects of work I had been making. Key to the progression was use of encaustic paint, a medium which lends itself to so many ways of working.

Through this series, I am able to express my interest in history and memory, how they collide, interact, become reinterpreted and finally fade away in the blur of time's onward movement. But metaphoric references to these subjects do not interfere with my enjoyment of the rich experience of marks and passages in paint and found materials. 

I have received a number of grants, including a Pollock Krasner grant, and have organized award-winning shows combining art and the history of place. My work has been collected by more than 25 large corporations such as Fidelity Investments, Manulife Financial and Western Asset Management in London, as well as by hotels, banks and private collectors. Speaking, teaching and showing my work at annual encaustic conferences in New England, have led me to teaching the occasional private student and to hosting classes in my studio for Smith College’s Materials of Art seminar.

Read Art in the Studio, my main blog, for my authoritative, humorous and personal views on making, looking at and thinking about art. I also offer insightful narratives about the lives of well-known artists. political enthusiasms and opinions, philosophical musings and observations and active interchanges with blog readers.