Artist and Painter

From my earliest childhood I loved to pick up a pencil and draw even receiving Honorable Mention in a “Draw Your Mom Contest” in grade school. I received my first oil painting kit in high school and have used oils ever since. I studied under Mrs. Frieda Reiter in New Jersey in the mid 60s. Mrs. Reiter was a great mentor and inspiration to me. She later became the artist for ABC news and a leading courtroom artist in the country. She covered the Son of Sam and Watergate hearings among others. I later spent a year at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (one of the oldest art schools in the country) and a year at the Philadelphia School of Art (commercial art).

My love for horses and the western lifestyle led me to produce cowboy art and similar scenes with animals and people.

I also loved to paint runners, being a marathoner myself. I won first prize in an annual art exhibition at the Boston Marathon in 1977 sponsored by Running Times Magazine.

During the holiday seasons in northern Virginia I worked at various malls as a caricature artist which I greatly enjoyed.

I am 71 years old and feel truly grateful to our Lord and God for this gift he has given me. I am presently studying under Lap Ngo, a world master painter living in Allen, TX.