San Diego Art Loft

Learn from an artist with 16 years painting and teaching experience. The curriculum involves lessons using observational drawing skills that can accommodate and inspire students from age ten through adult. A right brain approach opens our eyes to a completely new way of seeing.

Teaching and creating art are symbiotic for me. One needs the other. My passion and creativity guides my work whether I am working with canvas and a brush or working with students.

I hold a Master of Fine Art degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art. I have been on the faculties of five universities and colleges as well as many art studios and ateliers. I served as the manager of the Museum Art School for the San Diego Museum of Art. I am greatly influenced by the Renaissance masters and contemporary figurative painters. I am always drawn to portraiture and other figurative art. My philosophy is that art is ground on which many layers of the psyche can be expressed both literally and figuratively. It can unify by expressing the human experience using expressive faces and bodily gestures.