About the Artist

Growing up in Massachusetts in the 70's and 80's, being blinded by the flash cubes of my mother's Kodak Instamatic, it is amazing I can even see at all. Soon she was packing a Polaroid One-Step camera, with an equally blinding flash bar, and immediately shaking our images to life. Photography was always present. Lucky for us, many of those photos were snapped on Plum Island where our summer days were scented with salt air and Coppertone and moved to the soundtrack of a roaring tide and its crushing undertow.

My father, an offset cameraman, taught me an appreciation of the well printed black and white photograph. He often brought home beautiful picture books of old movie actors and classic architectural works of Boston. I still have a great fondness for collecting books today and an inability to stop myself from marveling at brilliant light and shadow patterns.

In the late 80's, I studied at the New England School of Photography in Boston and worked as a photojournalist for a string of newspapers and freelance publications in and around Boston before I found myself moving to Maine.

Over the years, I have owned a commercial photography and portrait studio, become a custom picture framer, created a local art gallery and exhibited my work in New York City and Los Angeles and throughout New England. My career has spanned many decades of change in the medium and I have continued studying photography along the way at the Maine College of Art as well as various seminars and conferences.

About a decade ago, I decided that I wanted to get my hands dirty again like I used to in the darkroom, so I set out to experiment with mixing mediums.

My latest endeavor involves mounting archival digital photographs on cradled birch panels and painting the surface with encaustic wax medium. I then carve and manipulate the wax surface while using a heat gun to fuse and spread the wax. Pieces are enhanced with an infusion of oil pastel, oil pigment sticks and loose powdered pigments.