My wife and all of my pets are dead. My children have grown up and moved away. I have retired from my career as an art teacher. So now, in these circumstances, I am finally concentrating on my art.

Forty years ago I dropped out of society. That is, I quit my job in Hartford, Connecticut and set out into the world with the single purpose to become an artist. I studied and worked at it and became an artist but a lot of other things also happened. Life was more complicated, involving and wonderful than I expected and it was impossible to do everything. Now in my sixties I am finally creating art that I was trying to create in my twenties.

I think of my paintings as felt symbols that express the nature of life as I try to understand it. My medium is encaustic or hot wax on paper. My works are mostly assemblages of various sized abstract pieces. I think that this technique accurately expresses the fragmented nature of life as I experience it, and it allows me to incorporate more of life in a single painting.

I studied at Queens College in NY, completed a BA at Goddard College in Vermont, and continued with graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.