About The Artist

I hold a B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design and a M.F.A. from the Academy of Art University, both with honors. I currently teach a variety of figurative courses in the graduate department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. I have received accolades for my work from the Pastel Society of America, Art Directors Club of New York, Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles, Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, the Pastel Journal and Campaign Papers. I have also received two Pastel 100 Awards placing me as one of the top 100 pastelists in the world. My work is collected by civic institutions, colleges and universities, and private patrons across the United States, Canada and Europe. I am the founder of Russian Art Tour (russianarttour.com), which allows me the pleasure of lecturing on both Russian and European art in Moscow and St. Petersburg. I am currently writing a book on Russian art. I work as a freelance writer for a number of art publications and I maintain a blog on Russian and European art (musings-on-art.org) My work has been recently featured in two museum shows, including a special honor where my work was hand selected from the Pastel Society of America's Annual Exhibition to show at the Butler Institute of American Art. The other was an exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum titled "Motion and Meaning."