Birthplace: Middle River, Maryland (on the Chesapeake Bay)
 
Residence: Rochester, New York
 
Family: Married, 2 children, 4 grandchildren
 
Education:  Scholarship to Haliburton School of Art , Toronto,
                    Canada Graduate of St. John Fisher College in Gerontology,
                    Rochester, NY
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Instructors:   Paul Allen Taylor, watercolorist, Rochester, NY
                      Lila Lewis Irving , abstract artist, Toronto, Canada
 
Inspiration: Family, friends, intense interest and love of nature
 
 
 
 
 
“Everyone discusses ‘my art’ and pretends to understand as if it were
necessary to understand, when it simply necessary to love.”
 
                                                                  
                                                                               Claude Monet