My career started at the age of two with a jumbo pack of Crayola crayons, rendering my first large-scale abstraction on my parents’ dining room walls. As I was encouraged to explore more appropriate mediums, I worked primarily in pencil and pastel, then as a teenager discovered my real love, painting.

I grew up overseas in Frankfurt, Germany and London, England. It was in Europe that I was exposed to many different painting styles, from the Old Masters to Abstract Expressionists. I have always been enraptured with color and the power of a paintbrush.

I came back to the U. S. for my Bachelor’s Degree, and lived, ate and breathed my fair share

of toxic fumes in the studios of Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY). With a major in Fine Arts, department honors, and a minor in Business, I then attended and graduated from the Portfolio Center for Advertising in Atlanta. I have been an art director since 1990, and have worked in large agencies such as, J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco and BBDO in Atlanta, in addition to smaller, start-up agencies. All the while, I continued to paint and create whenever I could.

I particularly enjoy working in a large format, measuring my canvas in feet rather than inches. I use mainly acrylic paints, and often mix in charcoal and oil stick. The overall look of my paintings range from vibrant, intense color; to calm, monochromatic neutrals. In my purely abstract work, my style is best identified by the use of overlapping geometric shapes and line, letting previous layers playfully show through. Lately, I’ve been creating more and more "abstract landscapes", my own unique interpretation of traditional scenes, with an abstract twist. [CSD]