Atelier en Plein Air

For the past 25 years, I have had the pleasure of visiting Tonto and Rio Verde for vacations. Nearly every morning, I would drive down Forest Road into the Tonto National Forest, always taking pictures of the surrounding area and often setting-up my easel to quickly paint the scenes en plein air.

My in-home gallery features many other paintings of this area, along with numerous other paintings of the Grand Teton Range in Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, the East Coast area around our previous home in Connecticut, and many other locations.

I am a graduate of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. From there, I attended the Art Students League of New York. While there, I studied with several masters in fine art, editorial illustration, watercolor, and calligraphy. During the Vietnam conflict, I was drafted into the United States Army. Following my basic training, I was assigned to the 4th Army Training Aids Center in El Paso, Texas, as an illustrator. I painted surface-to-air missiles at the White Sands Missile Range like the Army had never seen before! I returned to Chicago where I began a 57-year career in consumer product and, corporate strategy development and design. This often took me to the distant capitols of the world. I was always designing, drawing, and painting too. 

After all of that, in October of 2016 I became a permanent resident of Tonto Verde and that’s when I joined the Verdes Art League.