My wife and I are recent transplants to Providence from Minneapolis Minnesota where we lived for sixty years. Considered by some as an adventurous move (read crazy) at this stage of our lives, we decided that nothing is as important as being near our two children whose careers brought them to Boston and Providence a number of years ago. We could not have made a better decision! We are near family, the East Coast is a wonderful place to live, and we are surrounded by an amazing art community.

After graduating from Lourdes High School (in Rochester MN), attending a couple of semesters at the Minneapolis Art Institute, spending a year working along side a professional painter and getting a degree from the University of Minnesota in 1967, I set off on what became a fulfilling and creatively demanding career.

My "real job" years consisted of a variety of creative director positions in both the art and corporate worlds. In each instance, my responsibility was to manage creative research groups whose mission was to invent, illustrate, engineer and manufacture toy and related products. During the last twelve years in Minneapolis, I ran my own design studio specializing in the illustration of product concepts (primarily food items) for use in focus group testing.

I have been very fortunate during my brief time here as I have been accepted as a juried artist member of the Providence Art Club as well as the Art League of Rhode Island where my work has been represented in a number of venues sponsored by both organizations. In addition, this past year, I had the privilege of conducting a two day workshop at the Newport Art Museum and serving as a vice-president of the Art League. I am currently among the group of regular artists at Gallery 297 in Bristol Rhode Island.

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