Though as a child I was always interested in art my real journey began the first day of undergraduate school when I had an auditory hallucination telling me to become an art major. As part of earning my BFA in 1969 I spent a year in New York City at the first annual Whitney Museum Independent Study Program which still exists. I earned my MA in painting at UW, Madison in 1970.

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I have been painting all my life, much of it en plein air long before the current explosion of interest, and when portable materials were still somewhat novel. I have never stopped taking workshops, and mentoring, and sometimes formally instructing, others.

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My vision for my art is to leave something behind that will remain interesting to others, and toward that end I hope my work will always embody an expressive and emotional content.

At the moment I am interested in the emotion that might be called domestic nostalgia. As I enter the middle of my eighth decade I hope to continue growing as an artist, technically of course, but also creatively, expressively, and compassionately.