My original course of study was at the University of Minnesota in what used to be called “Soviet Studies”. In the late eighties I took a job at the American Embassy in Moscow. I then went on to teach American History at a Russian High School for five years. It was in Moscow that I discovered Art. When I returned to the United States I decided I wanted to pursue an art education, and have recently received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
It sometimes happens in life that events compel us to face the fact that we, none of us, have as much control over our own lives as we like to think we do. I see this too in the landscape when I paint it. We have our hands on the land. We attempt to harness its power, to use it, to change the face of it. Forgetting all the while that it is our host, and we may someday wear out our welcome. My current work reflects man’s constant, often futile struggle to control his life and the natural world.