I was born in 1953, the youngest of three children, in the rural but art rich area of Mystic, Connecticut. As a boy I spent most of my time outdoors fishing, hiking and horseback riding.

My neighbor was an artist, a student of Robert Brackman. We were told not to look into her studio window, but one day I did. The walls were covered with many paintings of nude men and women. That was my first introduction to the art world.

At the age of fourteen I went to work in my family's painting business with my grandfather. He was a master at mixing paint and I quickly acquired this talent. There were no color charts; you had to mix the color to a wallpaper or fabric or maybe a sweater. We used cans of colorant carried in a wooden box. It could take hours to match a color.

It wasn't until the spring of 2003 while on a trip to Italy that my world came full circle. The city of Venice would change my life. It was like a dream; I had never seen so many colors in one place. The next day I went into an art store and bought watercolors, brushes and paper. I have never stopped painting. I feel that my love of colors and painting connected through a natural progression of experience.

Today Marco Island, Naples and the Everglades are my winter studio. Spring, summer and fall are spent painting scenes of Martha's Vineyard and Mystic Ct.