Raised on Great Cranberry Island on the Maine coast as part of a family that has lived on the island for many generations. Simultaneously the island was the summer home for the likes of Gretna Campbell, Louis and Henry Finkelstein, William Kienbusch, George Bunker, Ashley Bryant, Carl Gustaf Nelson, Robert LaHoten, John Edward Heliker, John Lorence and other well known artists. Since 1967 several served (and serve) as direct and indirect influences and as mentors.

Attended and graduated from a one-room school on the Great Cranberry Island. Attended and graduated from private and public schools in Maine before serving in the U.S. Air Force (S.A.C. Command Post), ultimately returning to attend (on the G.I. Bill) and graduate, cum laude, from the University of Maine.

Between college and the present, full and part time work ranging from dishwashing, boat building, carpentry, delivery truck driver, school teacher, shoe salesman, bookseller, manager, business executive in publishing industry and ultimately from 1998 to 2005 as a Director of Publishing for the Museum of Modern Art, NY producing 170 major catalogues documenting the collection and exhibition program of the Museum. Meanwhile, continuing the daily practice of painting and drawing with increasing intensity from the 1970's to present.

Presently lives in NYC, working as a full-time artist, with a studio in Stratford, Connecticut and on Great Cranberry Island; on the same point of land as the studios of the late artists, John Heliker, Robert LaHoten, Gretna Campbell and Louis Finkelstein.