I was born in Melrose, Massachusetts of Swedish heritage, and grew up on the North Shore of Boston. I began my life as a full time artist in the early eighties, living in a cabin in Vermont, always painting what I loved, landscapes and old houses and barns. My passion for the New England coast inspired me to eventually purchase my own sailboat, a 33 foot Luders, which I sailed on the Maine coast and eventually down the Eastern Seaboard to Florida and across the gulf stream to the Bahamas. There I lived for a few months on my sloop "Seascape," earning my way by painting boats and marine scenes.

I have come to rely on a core of collectors rather than focusing my energies on pursuing large-scale art-business endeavors. I avoid trendy scenes or formula painting. I am drawn to the scenes I paint by the light, and by disappearing Americana. I now live in a 250-year old farmhouse on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where my wife and I enjoy the abundance of wildlife on our 11-acre farm, and canoeing on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers and inlets.

I have a deep love for workboats such as ply the waters of the Chesapeake, the Maine coast, and the Gloucester schooners of yester-year, as well as classic sailing yachts. I am a stand-up studio painter, and work plein-air during the summer on our sojourns to Maine and Nova Scotia, seeking new material. My work is available through the Art of the Sea gallery in South Thomaston, Me.