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My path as an artist has everything to do with my family history, my education in and out of school, and  the many amazing people I have met along the way.

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In 2008, after 20 years teaching (first) writing and (subsequently) freehand drawing  at the University of Miami, the School of Architecture in Coral Gables offered me the life-changing opportunity to bring students to Rome, and to eventually stay in this City and carry on my work here on a deeper level. This is why my own open book of Rome is as full of handwritten notes and sketches about its piazzas, its Caesars, and its Popes,  as it might be of thoughts about 1-point perspective and the elegant form of an urn or vase. Rome has given me an opportunity  to discover how the active engagement of our eyes and hands when we draw while we travel or visit an important location can transform not only our visual language on paper but -- more importantly -- ourselves.

Hopefully this web page will give you a glimpse  into my Art world  and invite you to discover , in my company,  both Rome and some of the fascinating areas surrounding it.