I am a self-taught artist and a firm believer that art can be anything and belongs to everyone.

My creative journey began where most honest things do — without a plan. Watercolor landscapes came first, a way of learning to see. Then came clay, hand-built and fired, and with it a question that changed everything: what if imperfection is the point? That question led me to the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi — the beauty found in asymmetry, roughness, the natural arc of growth and decay. It became less a philosophy and more a practice: stay in the moment, trust the material, let the work arrive without forcing it.

Today I work across watercolor, collage, assemblage, sculpture, ceramics, and photography.

After a long career building client relationship across global industries, I stepped into a second chapter driven not by markets, but by meaning. I served on the Metuchen Arts Council as President, chaired the Junebug Art Festival, sat on the Downtown Alliance and Chamber of Commerce boards, co-founded the Middlesex County Jazz Festival, and founded Friends of Metuchen Arts — because I believe a community's creative life is as vital as its civic one.

I am also a founding member of “Cone9Colab” a Wabi-Sabi art collective bringing together artists, communities, and ideas through collaborative exhibitions, workshops, and events. See link below for more details.

Basecamp Studio & Gallery is where all of that now converges. It is not simply a gallery. It is a foundational camp for the creative spirit — a place to start, to explore, to collaborate, and to ascend. We host exhibitions, workshops, markets, and conversations. We celebrate process over product, integrity over trend, and access over exclusivity. Art is not a solitary destination. It is a shared journey, and everyone deserves a place to begin.