I received the Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969.  My career includes teaching at the University level as well as an active research program developing marine bio-products as renewable resources.  Presently, I am tenured faculty and professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.  I formalized a life-long interest in architecture and drawing through art instruction and workshops in Wilmington and Italy.

        My interest is in architectural details that provide opportunities to respond to striking contrasts in light, texture, and geometry.  My painting is based on the premise that we design and occupy living spaces that become inseparable from our worldview and lifestyle.  The relationship between culture and architecture seems especially strong in the Southwest where Spanish, European and Native American experiences have created a style immediately recognizable throughout the world.

        In addition, I devote much time to commissioned architectural portraits of homes, both historic and contemporary.  I pursue my fascination with Spanish colonial architecture by frequent working vacations to the Southwest and Mexico.  I have been a contributor to the Mountain Oyster Contemporary Western Art Show and Sale in Tucson since 1998.  In Tucson, I am represented by the Milargo Art Gallery.  I am a member of the Wilmington Art Association and the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild.