Knox Farm - East Aurora Advertiser Photo

             
               I grew up in East Aurora, NY a small town south of Buffalo.  The Western New York region as a whole has remarkable natural and cultural features, and architects from Wright to Richardson, Sullivan to Olmsted, have examples of work here. This fragile, magnificent landscape inspired me to draw and paint at an early age and develop a deep love and concern for our environment, both man-made and natural.  I chose to pursue architecture as a profession and made a mid-career change into teaching in 2001. For the last eleven years I have been a full time faculty member in the Interior Design Department at Villa Maria College in Buffalo.  
      
            “Art is the means to jolt ourselves and others awake to the wonder of being alive in this stupendous universe”. 
                                                                                     - Robert Henri

               So, as an artist, sculptor, and architect, it may be about a building, a landscape, even a figure, or portrait. What I do know is that painting, especially Direct Painting, allows me to participate in this dynamic like nothing else ever has. My goal is to seek the technical excellence required to give compelling expression to these subjects.

"White Hyacinths" Roycroft Built Home- East Aurora Advertiser Photo

"East Elevation", Moomaw Residence (White Hyacinths), East Aurora, NY.