At a moment in 1970, when a model dropped her robe and stood naked in front of a class of wide-eyed eighteen year old art students, I found something in life I loved – the challenge to draw the living, breathing, continuously moving landscape of the human body. What started out as a challenge quickly became a passion. Ten years later, when I happened upon Kate Fetterolf's dynamic pastels at a local exhibition, I knew I had discovered my medium. After 30 years working in pastels, I've spent the past few years transitioning to oil painting. I wanted a different tactile experience; I was tired of dropping and stepping on expensive pastels (there goes another $6.00); I felt I was repetitious in my work; I wanted to learn to paint. The recent awards for my oils at the American Impressionist Society and National Oil and Acrylics Painters Society exhibitions confirm I'm going in the right direction. I have lived in Atlanta, GA, since my family moved from Long Island, New York, in 1960. I attended the Atlanta College of Art at the High Museum and furthered my studies under painters Roman Chatov, Kate Fetterolf and Jim Richards. I have made my living for over 30 years selling my work and teaching.