My foray into art looked like MC Escher, day-glo paint and Salvador Dali. I met Walter Bartman, an artist who became my mentor. I started taking his ‘figure in the landscape class’ at the Yellow Barn Studios in Glen Echo, Maryland, at a repurposed amusement park in 1996. I’ve painted with Walt now for 24 years and taken classes, workshops and had solo shows, received honorable mentions as well as studying at other places like the University of Maryland, Maryland Hall, Chesapeake Fine Art Studio and the Schuler School of Fine Arts who’s atelier day program was out...more