Viewing and creating art has given me great pleasure over the years, but I feel a “perfect fit” using the medium of graphite and colored pencil drawing. Although the process is slow and intensive, it is ultimately, very satisfying. I enjoy the blending, layering and detailing that allow me to represent extremes of light and shadow, and the subtle gradations in between. My subjects may be children, flowers, natural objects, and people in outdoor settings. I react emotionally to them, strive to evoke their mood, and to share what I believe are universal feelings such as joy, wonderment, and the pleasure of being alive in nature. My drawings, through their visual language, are another means of communicating with people, something, about which I care a lot.
My work has been juried into many regional and national exhibitions, including those of: •Weiner Library, F.D.U.•Hudson Valley Art Assoc.•Monmouth Festival of Art •Ringwood Manor Art Assoc. •The Pen & Brush Assoc. •Audubon Artists •American Artists Prof.League •Community Arts Assoc. •Rye Arts Center •Ridgewood, NJ Art Institute •Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club •Stamford Art Assoc., Ct. •Rutherford, NJ Art Assoc. • The Salmagundi Club • The Colored Pencil Society of America
2005 - 2012 Awards
Gordon Grant SCNY Award at 2012 Salmagundi Spring Auction
Selection of "Red Rock" by the 2011 Paint the Parks Mini50 Exhibition
Celebrating Bergen County Diversity, 2011, 1st Place DrawingAAPL 82nd Grand Nat'l - Cornwell Award for a Graphic2010 Focus NJ - Honorable Mention, Drawing2010 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members' Show - 2nd Place Drawing2010 Bergen Cty. "Diversity" - 1st Place Drawing2009 Salmagundi "Portraits" Exhib. - Honorable MentionBest in Show &1st Place Drawing - 2008 New Jersey State Senior Exhibition2nd Place Professional Drawing - 2007 NJ State Senior ExhibitionBergen Cty.Juried Senior Art Show - 1st Place Professional: Drawing, '07,'08,'09,'10Gaelen Gallery 9th Ann. Invitational - Hon. Mention Drawing•2007 & 2008 Focus NJ - 1st Place Drawing•2007 New Jersey State Senior Exhibition - 2nd Place Drawing•Gaelen Gallery 8th Ann. Invitational - Best in Show
•Bergenfield Arts Exhibition - 1st Place Pencil Drawing•St.Catherine’s POA ‘ 1st Place, 3rd Place, Drawing•American Artists Professional League - President’s Award•Salmagundi Members Exhibition - Honorable Mention•Bergen Cty.4th & 5th Juried Senior Art Show - 1st Place Professional: Drawing•CAA Nat’l Open Exhibition- Drawing & Graphics Award•HVAA 74th Ann. Exhib. - Salmagundi Club Award•RMAA - 2nd Place Drawing, 2005 & 2006•Art Assoc. of Rutherford - 1st Place Drawing•Wiener Library, FDU - “Works on Paper” - Honorable Mention, Excellence in Drawing•Art Center of Northern NJ, “Focus on NJ” - 1st Place Drawing
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