I sold my first painting at nine to a man trying to impress one of my female cousins. The painting was an abstract cityscape. Public education high school art classes were my only “formal” training until college.  Of the thirty-something paintings I did in high school, I sold only four to friends and family. Mostly sea and landscapes.

The Navy afforded me the time to complete several female nudes that hung for a while in several bars around Puerto Rico.

In College, the School of Architecture at Virginia Tech 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.

After graduating in 1977 and moving to Florida my 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, yet it still works for me.