After majoring in print making at the Philadelphia College of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute, where I also enjoyed a wide variety of art history courses, I turned my attention to historically-based decorative painting.

    Each particular era has its own decorative language, with a corresponding grammar of curves and ornaments, a grammar that I freely adapt to suit the taste of the client and the decorative needs of the project. For harpsichord soundboard paintings, I use only the pigments which were available at the time. Since many of these are no longer available as ready-made paints, I make my own paints using period recipes. Some of my pigments come from a working windmill in Holland which has been grinding artist's pigments since the 18th century.