The style of my paint­ings is Abstract Real­ism which presents beau­ty in clas­si­cal clar­i­ty com­fort­ably under­stood by all view­ers while abstract­ing ele­ments with­in the paint­ing such as light, edges, sprin­kled with impres­sion­ist touch­es with­in the paint­ing. My intent is to engage the view­er to inter­pret the paint­ing that entice feel­ings of plea­sure. The tech­niques of this human­is­tic style have evolved over cen­turies as great mas­ters, such as Michelan­ge­lo, Velasquez, Rem­brandt, Corot, Sar­gent, etc. built upon the wis­dom of oth­ers who came before them. I have been priv­i­leged to study with inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized artists such as Robert Lib­er­ace at schools in the Unit­ed States, Europe, and India. It has also been my plea­sure to spend a great amount of time in acclaimed art muse­ums such as the Wash­ing­ton, DC where we lived for 25 years as well as Europe and India. A high­light of my stud­ies study­ing at the Russ­ian Acad­e­my in St. Peters­burg, Rus­sia where I spent days vis­it­ing the Her­mitage and oth­er out­stand­ing museums.