I began my life of art as a self-taught sculptor crafting original one-of-a-kind and limited-edition art dolls. Later I switched to painting landscapes and the figure. My subjects of women and children represent the world in its most beautiful, ethereal, sacred and eternal aspects. I have concentrated on figures my entire life, but they do not exist in a vacuum. Instead, both disciplines of figure and landscape painting enhance my appreciation for the inherent design found in nature and help me express visual ideas that comment on the world in which we live.