I began painting at an early age and was also interested in Interior Design and Architecture. I first studied Interior Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology which initially satisfied my interest in Interiors and Architecture. I then went on to study printmaking and painting at New Paltz State University, where I received my Masters in Art. It was living at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, with their unique rock formations which became an immediate inspiration for my paintings. I then discovered the underwater world when I started to scuba diving in the Caribbean, which became extremely influential to my work.

 Upon the completion of my studies and several student exhibitions, I moved to Manhattan to begin my professional career as a painter. During the sixties I taught art in various school programs and began exhibiting my etchings and paintings in and around New York, showing at the American Greeting Card Gallery in the Pan American Building, New York, in 1968; at the Anne Leonard Gallery in Woodstock; and the Open House Gallery in Katona, New York, through 1969.

 Living and working in New York City had a very strong influence on my paintings. The clarity of color became much stronger and the image larger, as well as more simplistic, while maintaining the landscape. I continued exhibiting in New York City at the Connection Gallery and the Metamorphosis Gallery, in 1972-73. My participation in a group show, at the Levitan I & II Gallery in 1973 was my first exposure to the Soho Gallery scene. In 1974 I started teaching at Lehman College in the Bronx and Kean College in New Jersey, where I was invited to take part in several faculty shows.

 I continued working with the landscape, and then introduced the coral forms which have such a resonating relationship to the rock forms that were a constant in so much of my work. I have continued exhibiting my work in one woman shows at the Hansen Gallery in New York City and Mexico City, as well as group shows at the Brooklyn Court House, P.S.1, Queens; Marshall Fields, Chicago; the Woman’s Dialogue in Paris; A.I.R. Gallery, New York; River Gallery, New York; Jayne Baum Gallery, New York;  Stephen Edward Gallery, New York; 22 Wooster Street Gallery, New York; Haber Theodore Gallery, New York; Small Works Show, New York University; and consistently invited to exhibit my work in faculty group exhibits at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where I have recently retired from as a full professor.

 My love of interiors and architecture has continued throughout my teaching as a Professor of Interior Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology; my free-lance Rendering business and watercolors of Architecture in and around New York city and other environs.

 The work has been published in Penthouse Magazine; The Whole Sex Catalogue; and the Kitchen Almanac and most recently published “The Evolution of a Neighborhood-NOHO”, which is a comparative, illustrated study of the NOHO area in the 1830’s and today. The book reflects my continued love of architecture as seen in the portfolio.

 Paintings are in several collections, including Citi Bank: Best & Company; PepsiCo; IBM; as well as private collectors.

I presently work and reside in New York City.