I realized that I had artistic aptitude while in high school around age 15. I majored in Fine Arts at Haverford College, while taking prerequisite sciences for medical school. My artistic pursuits lapsed until around 2019 at age 62, when I started taking figure drawing classes at Woodstock School of Art. Since then, I have expanded my repertoire from pencil sketching to include color pastel. I draw both small and large scales. I am quite interested in and motivated by what I can achieve in the studio before finishing at home, via cell phone photographs. I have lived in Saugerties for over 15 years, and have exhibited at Emerge Gallery and the WSA Student shows. I try to draw every day, usually from online modeling sites.