Born on Eastern Long Island, I spent my boyhood around the farms and bays of this unique setting. My first job was on an uncle’s farm and it gave me great memories of early mornings with the dew in the air and the smells of fresh turned earth that stay with me today. My other source of inspiration comes from so many wonderful days on Peconic Bay; fishing, clamming and boating along with days at the Ocean or Long Island Sound beaches. It’s no wonder to me how I’ve targeted these environments as the basis for most of my work. Combined with an interest in local history, I’m trying to preserve a bit of what is left of our unspoiled locale with a look back at how it appeared to our forefathers.

A lifelong fascination with the era of sail, accounts for the majority of my subjects and that too is directed at the craft that sailed and worked Long Island waters.