My family has always encouraged my creative pursuits, especially in music with the result that I pursued a formal musical education achieving a masters degree in piano performance. I have been teaching for over thirty years at University, High school and privately. Throughout this time, my interest in art history and painting has been continuing and deepening but on an informal level through galleries, museums (lived in Europe for a year) and private studies. By studying  the great artists and European art, I began to comprehend how to paint and how to successfully formulate and transfer ideas and create stories onto a blank canvas.  

My background is in music performance, having attained bachelor and Masters degrees in music performance. After my schooling I became a teacher. I have been teaching Music for over forty years at University, High school and privately. Throughout this time, my interest in art history and painting has been blossoming and deepening, but on an informal level through galleries, museums (lived in Europe for a year) and private studies. Over thirty years ago, I started painting and finding my abstract style, through study. I apply the same procedures and diligence to painting, as I do to the study of music. A University education in music performance, requires you to learn theory and general knowledge of Western/European eras of art and music. Just as my art is based on the relationship between the geometric and biological world, art and music are connected in many ways. This interaction produces simple and complex tensions and resolutions, and at the same time creating completely new and different elements. I would not be the artist I am, without being a musician as well. It is something I cannot stop being.