I was born July 8, 1943 in New Jersey,

just two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean.

Despite growing up during Hot and Cold Wars,

I seem to have had a reasonably

"normal" suburban childhood.

Unfortunately, our public school focused only on the 3Rs,

and I had to wait until I entered Rutgers University

to be offered an art class.

But by then, thanks to encouragement from my family,

I'd had many years to develop my

"inner artist."

Why Miniatures?

Until I was eight, no one knew

that I was terribly near-sighted.

My world was one of books,

science projects, crafts, and models.

At university I studied Art History

but seldom attempted to create it.

It was not until 1967 that I made

my first serious black ink drawings.

Soon, with the help of a Sharpie,

I began a "psychedelic" style,

that I later refined with a Rapidograph Pen

and Staedler Colored Felt Tip Pens.

In 1992 I started painting

credit card size landscapes in color, and

continued with this size until Bali

where I found a framer who

could, and would, cut 3 x 4cm

openings in a double mat.

Only upon returning to the USA was it suggested that

the Bali size was perhaps a little too small.

In 2013 I returned to "larger" miniatures:

2 1/4" x 3 1/4" (5.7 x 8.3cm).