Been a professional photographer since I was eighteen years old. In high school my favorite classes were art and gym. Love making things - fine art, applied art and graphic arts. In college this study continued. Over the years it continued, still continues.
One of the ways I learned portrait photography was visiting museums and studying the masters. This was so exhilarating. Dragged my children through museums in Venice and Rome to see works I had seen in art history books and in slide shows during classes (maybe someday they will think it was amazing like I did).
Over the years I visited lots of museums and large art fairs including Art Basel. The Hamptons Fine Art Show is a big deal. I am so excited. As a teenager, took myself to cities, on subways and places never been to. Sometimes it was scary just getting there, a bit uncomfortable, but I wanted to see these gorgeous works of art I was learning about. Growing up in Colts Neck, my first trip into Brooklyn meant trains and subways by myself - things that I had never been on. Yet I needed to see Claude Monet’s exhibition - it was so beautiful, moving really. Loved going on museum travels alone - never a need to hurry and worry that someone else was bored.
The last decade, my desire to broaden as an artist grew. Loved, still love, my work with families.This is the side of me (the one I may have been afraid to be) that thought portraiture was being the practical artist, a way to combine my life as a mother with my need to create art. So last year I turned sixty… it is amazing how fast that happened. This is the beginning of the next part of the dream.
