I obtained my BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. followed by my MFA from the Yale University Art School and then post-graduate life drawing sessions at the New York Studio School. My early work, on one hand, was heavily influenced by life drawing from the figure, while my studio painting was rooted in the concerns of Abstract Expressionism. In the past 30 years, these concerns for communicating painted emotional presence have translated into working landscape paintings within wilderness areas and through artist residencies in National Parks, Maine Boundary Islands, and lastly, within the high desert of my home in Southern California.