About The Artist

Before I started painting abstracts in oils and subsequently acrylics on canvas I had been a major collector of art from 1967 to the late 1990s. This collection was greatly expanded as I purchased many paintings from States in the former Soviet Union in my travels doing research on health consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. These studies were funded by Columbia University in NYC after I had moved from Toronto to NYC. Around this time I started taking classes in drawing and painting at the Art Students League (ASL) and thus my career as an artist began.