I avoided painting for many years.  I wanted to conquer the art world with some exotic medium.  I majored in Printmaking in collage then moved to Denver and worked with master stone carvers in the area and played in bronze foundries.  When I moved back to New England, I bought a kiln and created clay sculptures.  Somewhere along the way I realized that I was hiding behind "the process" and decided to "make it real"...just me, a few tubes of paint and a brush.  I started to paint things I'd seen...as I remembered them: street signs, a row of trees, the midnight sky, the setting sun.  Then someone asked me to paint a portrait of a house.  To my surprise, I enjoyed painting architectural structures.  That led to painting local scenes and landscapes.  Although I have had several years of formal art training, I have never actually taken a painting class.  I think I bring an educated rawness to the canvas.