I am a classically trained visual artist with a Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College, where I studied under George Harris and Joan Wadleigh Curran—two painters who shaped my approach to both making and teaching art. My practice spans drawing, painting, and sculpture, including statement pieces, bas-reliefs, landscapes, and cityscapes, and my work has been shown and sold in galleries. In 2015 I completed an Orvis Residency at the Honolulu Museum of Art, and I painted a mural at Punahou...
I am a classically trained visual artist with a Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College, where I studied under George Harris and Joan Wadleigh Curran—two painters who shaped my approach to both making and teaching art. My practice spans drawing, painting, and sculpture, including statement pieces, bas-reliefs, landscapes, and cityscapes, and my work has been shown and sold in galleries. In 2015 I completed an Orvis Residency at the Honolulu Museum of Art, and I painted a mural at Punahou School in Honolulu.
I have been teaching art since 2010, when I began working one-on-one with my son, then in grade school, who was struggling with art. Since then my teaching has focused on adults and young adults—students returning to art after time away, preparing portfolios for art programs, or picking up a brush or chisel for the first time in earnest. I teach one-on-one by preference, because it lets me build a lesson plan around the individual rather than a fixed curriculum. A typical session starts with a focused technical exercise—line, value, color mixing, or form—then moves into hands-on work where the student applies that skill to a piece of their own. I close with honest critique and a clear next step, so progress is visible week to week.
What I bring to Wyzant students is both classical training and a working artist's perspective. I was taught fundamentals first—drawing, composition, anatomy, color theory—and I teach them the same way, because technique is what gives a student the freedom to break rules later. I am patient with beginners, direct with intermediate students who want to be pushed, and comfortable teaching sculpture, painting, and drawing as separate disciplines or in combination. I work with adults and young adults at every level, and I am glad to help students prepare portfolio pieces for art program applications. My goal is always the same: to give a student the skills and the confidence to make something genuinely their own.
