Born in 1947 in Alexandria, Virginia to a young Army family, I sold my first painting at nine to a man trying to impress one of my female cousins. The painting was an abstract cityscape. Got interested in Architecture the same summer when a uncle by marriage allowed me to watch while he worked at his drafting board.

Being an Army brat meant we moved. A lot. Which fostered my nomadic attitude to styles, people and places, never getting to attached to either. The most constant thing in my life was change and art; drawing, painting, coloring. Public education high school art and drafting classes were my only “formal” training until college.
 

After high school, I joined the Navy where I continued to paint while learning more about he building trades, which I continued in college.

I attended college at Virginia Tech, where their School of Architecture encouraged it’s students to express their design process and thoughts in a broad range of media. Painting just came naturally to me. There I fell under the influence of the Bauhaus, both Artistically and Architecturally.
 

My paintings seem to have followed the same path in that paintings seemed to move from residential scale and subject matter to commercial scale and subject matter. My styles have migrated from Post-Impressionism to Representational Abstract Expressionism to non-representational Abstract Expressionism. A small thread of consistency has been my use of a broad color palette.

Today, although some may see it as a sign of weakness, I still paint in a large range of styles as well as design in a range of Architectural styles.  But, it still works for me.

RBC