Artist Statement

While working in medical publications design at SK&F Laboratories (a Philadelphia pharmaceutical company) in the late 1960s, I attended the evening division of the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, Tyler School of Art and Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. My main goal was to work in advertising as a designer. Soon after, I worked as a graphics designer and art and print buyer for a medical publisher in northern New Jersey on a national medical journal named Consultant Magazine. Due to personal reasons I left that job in the 1970s and returned to work in Philadelphia for the APCL&K Advertising Agency and then National Advertising before returning to SK&F in 1980. I married and raised three beautiful girls.

Upon retiring from SK&F at the end of 2003, I took an oil painting refresher course on Long Beach Island, NJ. I now devote most of my time to drawing, painting and photography. In my quest to perfect my painting style, I study the light and shadow techniques of such masters as Clark Hulings, Andrew Wyeth, Rembrandt and Salvador Dali. I draw from life and then usually photograph in detail my subject matter. I then paint in my studio and often change the light of the day or change day to night to fit the mood or drama that I am trying to obtain.