I received a B.A. Degree (with honors) and a M.S. Degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. I obtained my Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. I was a college professor and a practicing psychotherapist. Over these years I also studied art and photography at The Ohio State University, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and as art started to occupy all my life I returned to school for an M.F.A. in Studio Art which I received from The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. I taught painting and drawing in the United States and Italy.
In July 2002 I went to western Sardinia for a month's painting holiday and immediately fell in love with the landscape of Sardinia, returning often to paint it for three years, and finally moving there permanently in 2005. While I have painted and travelled all over the world, I find the Sardinian landscape the most compelling to paint, and continue exploring the beauty and allure of this island through my paintings.
My main interest is painting Sardinian landscapes with water-based mediums, both acrylic and watercolor. The paintings explore the tension between form and colors, between what is observed and my personal view and intimate impressions of the mountains, rocks, and colors of Sardegna: a riot in yellows, greens and blues, with strong, color-saturated points of light and atmosphere, which glows deeply in the shadows of these landscapes. I paint what I see, what surrounds us, even though so much lies below the surface, unseen, hidden, with barely visible traces, filtered through the emotion of what the landscape says to me. The beginnings for most of my paintings are done outdoors, plein aire. There is something about looking directly at nature in the heat and dryness that allows the canvas to manifest, melt, fuse, and merge with the surrounding atmosphere bringing it to life. I search to find what colors and textures make the landscape on my canvas alive and vibrate. With the air and the light continually varying I want to capture the transient mystery in this world of abstraction, chaos, and color that is the Sardinian landscape.
I presently split my time between Sardinia, Ohio, and traveling, while continually painting.
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