Painting is labor of love that has consumed and changed my life, exposing my work internationally, starting a nonprofit organization, studying and teaching at the Academy of Realist Art. I am as passionate about teaching as I am about  painting and learning. I long for the means to continue my education to increase my artistic literacy that I may better be able to articulate myself in my own work. I have been studying as the sole pupil of Thomas Dunlay who wishes to pass on all of his experience from his teacher R.H. Ives Gammell. Furthering my own education is of the upmost importance for the sake of being an adequate instructor for future students and generations of painters alike.

My aspirations to become as well educated as possible have lead me to become seduced with a love for materials; I make every pigment and mull every tube of paint. Long stack lead white procces,  Chinese alchemy for vermillion, and Cennini's recipe for genuine ultramarine blue, for me doing this helps breed an intimate relationship with my craft.

My long term goal is to spread knowledge, teach, start an atelier or academy of my own.Also, to establish my own work to be world reknowned and rekindle the Boston aristicratic portrait to a new glory in the beginning of the 21st century with a group of highly trained painters; strictly painted from life without any aid of photography.