About me

By profession, I am a journalist and writer. I spent seven years in the early 1980s working as a reporter for The Boston Globe, covering northern New England and later science and technology. From 1987 to 2019, I worked for the Baha’i International Community as an information officer, writing about human rights, international development, and the United Nations and the Community’s involvement with those topics. During that period, I traveled to more than 35 countries. I’m currently working on a novel.

But I’ve long been deeply interested in the visual arts. I studied photography and film-making in college. My interest in images has been greatly influenced by my work as a journalist and editor and by what I’ve seen in my travels around the world.

My explorations with abstract painting are a relatively recent effort. I took up painting in the early 2000s, mainly as a form of pure expression, and have worked more steadily at it over the last few years. I find it an important contrast or counterpoint to my daily occupation with words.

Although not formally trained as a painter, I’ve spent many hours studying paintings in museums when I travel. I find myself greatly influenced by painters like Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollack, and Gerhard Richter.

My goal is to experiment with color and form in such a way so as to create images that, without words or descriptions, are aesthetically pleasing. Another goal to express a sense of spiritual beauty and wonder, perhaps influenced by my understanding of the Baha’i Faith. Ultimately, my standard is this: Does it make me (and others, I hope) happy when I look at it?That is my real goal: to bring a bit of happiness into the world.