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Hi ~
I was born in Bklyn NY and started art lessons at 5 yrs old and continued in private lessons throughout my school years, exhibiting and selling my art since school. I was awarded the Freshman Art Award from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC when I was 14. At I sold out early at the Sailors Snug Harbor Art Show & Sale and began taking commissions fro teachers, doctors, lawyers, stock brokers and store owners...
During the summers as I grew up, my family would vacation in Maine, where I developed a love for lighthouses and painting seascapes. I also loved going to the countryside in Pennsylvania and gaining inspiration to do rural scenery and then displayed and sold them in NYC.
In 1984 I suffered an accident that cost me the use of my right hand for 6 yrs. I moved away from NYC to upstate NY and later to Northern Pa to raise my children .With God's mercy and several surgeries, I began to get limited use of my hand back and over the years . I have been able to commence painting and drawing again..20 years post op, my doctors were thoroughly amazed at sudden nerve regeneration that they couldnt explain and I now paint all the time...For this I give God all the glory!
Now I am retired and back living in PA after briefly living out west and am continuing my art full time.Although I have been away from the sea many years I still like to do seascapes along with my landscapes.. Pen & Ink illustrations and pencil drawings I do when the mood strikes, but I tend to do more paintings than anything else...
It is a pleasure to join this site and I hope to share and learn from the other artists here as well as hope to meet some people who would be interested in my work...
God bless you and have a great day!
Ave
