William Biddle was born and raised in Hamilton. His interest in art began at an early age and this same interest led him to an apprenticeship in the design department of a lithographic firm, followed by studies at the Art Student’s League in New York City.
Bill ran his own illustration studio in Toronto until 1988. Today Bill works from his Dunnville studio, inspired by such artist / illustrators as Norman Rockwell, Lyndecker, Corwell, Flagg, Sargent and Homer. Now retired from the Ontario College of Art & Design, Bill teaches classes in both drawing and watercolour at his Gallery William Biddle in Dunnville, Springbank Visual Art Centre and the Dundas Valley School of Art. His watercolours are rich in detailed observations of nature, architecture or human behaviour.
Artist’s Statement:
“For me, a sense of Nostalgia seems to strike a cord close to home, directly for some, and imaginary for others, providing a story-telling quality that makes the viewer feel a greater part of the scenario.”
Harold Town (1924-1990) was a very important Canadian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was born in Toronto and studied at the Western Technical School and the Ontario College of Art. He exhibited widely, holding over 100 one-man shows beginning in 1954. His vast body of work comprises paintings, etchings, lithographs, collages, drawings and works in other media. He was a founding member of Painters Eleven, the group of artists who helped to introduce Canadians to abstract art in the 1950’s. This group of Toronto abstract expressionist painters which included Jack Bush and William Ronald took their cues from contemporary post-war American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothe, and Willem de Kooning. Throughout his career he remained a focus of controversy for his original artwork, flamboyant public persona and outspoken opinions.
Town gained international recognition for his technically inventive "single autographic prints" which he made from 1953 to 1959. They won awards in Ljubljana (Yugoslavia) and Santiago (Chile), were acquired by the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (both New York City), and led Alfred Barr of the latter museum to consider Town one of the world's greatest printmakers.
Collections: AGF Management Limited, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Council Art Bank, Cineplex Odeon Corporation, Coopers & Lybrand, Imperial Oil of Canada, Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada, London Regional Art Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Montreal Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Canada, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Sarnia Public Library and Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery.
Toller Cranston, born in Hamilton, Canada, is widely acclaimed as the most influential figure skater of this century. His birthday falls between the astrological sign of the sportsmen (Aries) and the artist (Taurus).
Toller is something of a modern-day Renaissance man. A lifetime of remarkable achievements make this artist extraordinary: Olympic medalist; Member of the Order of Canada; three-time world free-skating champion; Canadian Athlete of the Year; internationally-known painter, illustrator, author, designer, choreographer, commentator and star of award-winning television specials and films. These credits are merely the tip of the creative iceberg. As an artist, Mr. Cranston is highly respected by his peers and has exhibited in many prestigious galleries around the world.
Truly the "skater with the painter's eye," his skating and art have always been interconnected, with one passion feeding the other. His paintings - like his skating - are vibrant, bold, and dramatic. Many of his internationally recognized paintings deal with skating themes; his work appears in the World Figure Skating Museum, and the International Skating Union hosted a one-man exhibition of his work in conjunction with the 1997 World Championships.
Now in his early 50's, Cranston splits his time between his home in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and his loft in Toronto, where he paints canvases for sale at his Toronto art gallery.
Maureen Steuart as a nurse in training in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on more than a few occasions, crept out of the nurses’ residence to attend art classes. Later in life, while still nursing; she discovered the Dundas Valley School of Art. It was at D.V.S.A. that Maureen was taught printmaking by Jean Maddison.
Several years later, after working in Print coops, she finds herself at Dundas Valley School of Art, happily teaching printmaking. She continues to explore various methods of printmaking.
Artist’s Statement:
“It’s all about line to me, the puzzle of breaking things down to the essence of the line, the finest of details. Because of my love for the line, pen and ink line and etching are very comfortable media for me.”
Mississauga based potter Wayne Cardinalli’s ceramic works are invitingly tactile: each bearing the indelible mark of the artist’s hand. Wayne holds an M.F.A. in ceramics from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia and teaches at the Dundas Valley School of Art. His work is widely collected and has been exhibited in the U.S. and Canada.
Artist’s Statement: “Almost all of my work originates on the potters wheel. Many of the pieces are staunchly functional, but at times I depart from this to create pieces of more sculptural concern. However, there is not a clear line separating the two; rather there is always an element of each in both. Regardless of the intent of the work, the elements that remain constant are an exploration of direct gestural distortions of the freshly-thrown form, and a subtle painterly approach to the glaze surface.”
Ross Dreveny, a self-taught artist, was born in rural Saskatchewan but moved to Toronto when he was 10 years old. He currently resides in Cobourg. He has been painting for as long as he can remember and works in egg tempera on paper and acrylic on gesso board and canvas. Ross especially likes the spring when he can go sketching in the woodlands.
His technique and temperament bring a quiet peacefulness to his work. His paintings can be found in private collections across Canada, the US and Europe.
Artist’s Statement:
“I take images from the world around me, and I enhance these with my imagination…I am just painting a dream…and being a very curious person I do not stick to any one theme...the only consistency in my work is the pursuit of excellence.”
Hamilton artist Peter Kirkland trained at York University and completed his advanced studies at Dundas Valley School of Art. Since then, he has exhibited throughout the region, most recently at the Transit Gallery in Hamilton and the Burlington Art Centre.
Artists Statement: “The initial impression I want my work to make is one of palpable, although non-representational, presence. The forms are suggestive of animal and botanical models but are not resolved into clear representations of particular species. Ultimately, the creation of meaning from the contents...is up to the individual viewer...I feel that the viewers’ participation...assists in the development of a self-reflective state.” “I try to consider the drawing…balancing the unmarked areas of paper against the more or less heavily worked parts, looking to white areas as positive space, thinking of the act of creating marks as a sort of excavation back below the white paper surface as much as a building up of images on a white base. The practice of erasing and overlaying marks as the work progresses allows for the construction of a kind of internal narrative. The revisions indicate the element of choice; of acceptance or rejection of a given direction for the drawing to take, remaining before the viewer’s eye. This is an important consideration for me, because I've always felt it to be essential that the artist's physical presence remain in the work and communicate itself to the viewer.”
Paul Fournier was born in Simcoe, Ontario in 1939, and spent his early years in Hamilton. He is largely self-taught, but studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, and with George Wallace as a guest artist for etching at McMaster university. Fournier has travelled through Canada, England, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Florida and other regions in the Southern United States.
Paul resides and has his studio in Toronto. His work was brought to international attention through the important exhibition - 14 CANADIANS: A CRITIC'S CHOICE - which was selected by critic Andrew Hudson for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (The Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. and the group exhibition - THE NEW GENERATION: A CURATOR'S CHOICE - organised by Kenworth Moffett of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for the Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York. His paintings and graphics have been exhibited throughout Canada, the United States and Europe and are included in most major public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Tate Museum, as well as in private collections in the United States, South America and Europe.
Paul distinguished himself by producing naturalistic pen and ink drawings and etchings of subjects like insects, tree limbs, mushrooms, animals and birds. His subject-matters also include dramatic depictions of myths and legends, as well as non-representational works.
For just over 20 years, Lorraine Roy has been working with textiles in non-tradtional ways. By using a unique mixture of techniques like sewing, collage, embroidery and quilting, she integrates thousands of bits of fabric and threads with fine transparent tulle and machine stitching. The results combine her passion for science and spirituality while exploring the earthy origins and surprising versatility of fabrics and threads.
Lorraine’s formal education in Horticulture and subsequent research have become a steady source of material for her tree and plant images. From the start she combined representational motifs mixed with symbols from dreams, memories, and mythology. Lately she has been experimenting with abstracted images, a form that she finds more and more fascinating with each new breakthrough.
Lorraine now lives in Greensville, with her husband, photographer Janusz Wrobel. Visit her website at http://www.lroytextileart.com/ .
For the last forty years Kimiko Koyanagi has lived in Burlington, but was born and married in Japan - a third generation member of the Muraoka doll-making family of Tokyo. Following the family tradition since childhood, for more than fifty years now, she has both mastered the intricate techniques of fashioning doll-like sculptures from Paulownia wood shavings and at the same time evolved a style of artistic expression which is unique to herself and profoundly moving to the sensitive observer.
Kimiko’s works have been widely exhibited in Canada, Japan, the United States and Mexico, both in group and individual exhibitions during the last fifty years. She is probably the only person outside of Japan who uses this Chinese White (chalk) technique in creating her works and she has begun to teach a fourth generation in her chosen homeland of Canada.
Kimiko has been sculpting these tall, slender, female figures since childhood. Each doll takes several months to create, involving traditional Japanese practices. Combining paste, rice paper and finely ground wood shavings, the artist makes a base from which the figure is carved and sanded. The pigment, made from powdered seashell is applied next. The final painting is a mixture of seashell powder and watercolour.
The first impression is that Kimiko’s sculptures represent simplicity and beauty. However, beneath the angelic beauty and serenity of the dolls, Kimiko expresses her deepest emotions and philosophies. The sculptures are a unique modernization of an ancient Japanese tradition, which Kimiko uses as a vessel to express her innermost thoughts and spiritual feelings.
Colleen O’Reilly has been a ceramic artist for over 30 years. In 1990 she established “Spirited Clay” specializing in colourful porcelain tableware and tile. Over the past several years, as a reflection of her own creative and spiritual quest, Colleen has been creating unique totems and sculptural pieces that now grace the homes and businesses of many collectors. In December 2009 the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada purchased five of her life size totems to use for permanent display at Canadian Diplomatic Missions abroad. This continues the Canadian Government’s support of Colleen’s work as it has in the past with purchases from Brian Mulroney as official gifts to former British Prime Minister John Major and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
Artist Statement
“Rhythm, colour and gesture are elements I use when building my porcelain tableware, tiles and sculptural work; through such techniques, my goal is to create a moment where the viewer can transcend life’s struggles and celebrate the joys and pleasures of life.”
Bruno Capolongo is an established Canadian artist of Neapolitan descent. His work is collected by private and corporate collectors alike, and has been in well over 120 exhibitions, including over 20 solo shows. Exhibiting primarily in Canada and the United States, he has also shown in Japan, and has been represented by a number of fine art establishments, including galleries in Toronto, New York City, Montreal, and Washington DC.
Capolongo is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the internationally coveted Elizabeth Greenshields grant – three times (one of only three dozen triple recipients since 1955), and consecutive first place awards for the national Canadian exhibition and competition “Evidence of Things Unseen”. Due to his diverse interests and constant need for a challenge the artist’s work is constantly evolving.
Artist’s Statement:
“There are a number of principles by which I live and work as an artist with conviction. I believe in the supremacy of beauty, for me the aesthetic power of an artwork is more important than any underlying conceptual or theoretical component. This is because beauty is not merely a vehicle for meaning, but is itself meaningful, good and just. While conceptual underpinnings may abound in some of my work I maintain that the integrity or strength of the image itself is of greater importance.
In my own work I believe that all subjects-whether landscape, still-life, figurative or architectural-must be treated equally. A truly great landscape painting, then, is no less important than a Royal portrait-because of how it is made. There is really no hierarchy of subject-matter. This is why I say it is not what you paint, it is how you paint it. Finally, it has long been my belief that the most intelligent and successful artists draw from two sources of influence, the well of history, and the fountain of modernity. The artist who ignores either may languish or stumble. This is why I study the Old Masters carefully and respectfully, while ever aware of the dangers of merely imitating the artistic ideals of a bygone era.”
Bonnie Steinberg is a popular and highly respected artist and art instructor, conducting workshops and classes in Ontario and the United States. Bonnie is a graduate of York University, and is a faculty member at the Dundas Valley School of Art. She is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, (C.S.P.W.C.), the Society of Canadian Artists, (S.C.A.), and a signature member of the Toronto Watercolour Society, (T.W.S.).
Bonnie has exhibited extensively in both solo and group shows. Throughout the history of her career, she has acquired wide success, having her works displayed in galleries and art exhibits throughout Canada and the United States. She is the recipient of many awards, and her work can be found in many collections. The front cover of the 75th anniversary brochure of the C.S.P.W.C. illustrates Bonnie’s accepted painting in the Permanent Diploma Collection.
Bonnie’s watercolours encompass a variety of subject matter, with architectural detail, being her latest achievement. Ordinary “slices of life” are other choices. Her use of high-key colour and dramatic light make Bonnie’s paintings instantly recognizable.
Artist’s Statement
"My visions encompass my views of the world and will aim to give the viewer a glimpse into the world. If this relationship occurs, the painting has been successful."
Benjamin Thomas is a talented sculptor of the Wolf Clan - Mohawk Nation ~ O yehn da de ka. His work honours the traditions of the Haudenosaunee, the People of the Longhouse. His sculptures are about ideas and his messages are political and cultural. Thomas creates images that are compelling, very beautiful, and thought -provoking. He has lived his life in the traditions of his people and he has always been most conscious of the dilemna of native people living in two worlds. Ben has said that his ability to "make things", sometimes called"art", has provided an arena for expressing a unique way of looking at the world. Many people are unaware of issues affecting our world. It is important that there is understanding between those two worlds. Benjamin Thomas has a very special gift. His sculpture is a gift, a spiritual communication of spirit. Ben's work is exhibited in museums, galleries and private collections in Canada, in the USA and in Europe.
Prayer to the Four Directions:
Creator, It is I. Thank you for today’s sunrise, for the breath and life within me, and for all of your creations. Creator, Hear my prayer, and honour my prayer. As the day begins with the rising sun, I ask, Spirit keeper of the East, Brother Eagle, Be with me. Fly high as you carry my prayers to the Creator. May I have eyes as sharp as yours, so I am able to see truth and hope on the path I have chosen. Guide my step and give me courage to walk the circle of my life with honesty and dignity. Spirit keeper of the South, Wolf, Be with me. Help me to remember to love and feel compassion for all mankind. Help me to walk my path with joy and love for myself, for others, for the four legged, the winged ones, the plants and all creation upon Mother Earth. Show me it is right for me to make decisions with my heart, even if at times, my heart becomes hurt. Help me to grow and nurture myself worth in all ways. Spirit Keeper of the West, Brown Bear, Be with me. Bring healing to the people I love and to myself. Bring into balance the physical, mental and spiritual, so I am able to know my place on this earth, in life and in death. Heal my body, heal my mind and bring light, joy and awareness to my spirit. Spirit Keeper of the North, White Buffalo, Be with me. As each day passes, help me to surrender, with grace, the things of my youth. Help me to listen to the quiet, and find serenity and comfort in the silences as they become longer. Give me wisdom so I am able to make wise choices in all things which are put in front of me, And when time for my change of worlds has come, Let me go peacefully, without regrets, for the things I neglected to do as I walked along my path. Mother Earth, Thank you for your beauty, And for all you have given me. Remind me never to take from you more then I need, and remind me to always give back more than I take.
Sandor Monos was born in Hungary in 1954. During his school years he began to draw and paint under the guidance of local artists and teachers. He always belonged to an Art Club where he enjoyed experimenting with oil, watercolor and charcoal drawing.
In the fall of 1977 he emigrated to Canada where he continued drawing and painting. Sandor took night courses in Hamilton and in Dundas. In the beginning of 1984 he became interested in cartoon drawing. For a few years the local newspaper published his work in the Editorials. In 1993 a local sculptor, introduced him to bronze casting and Sandor served as his apprentice for ten years.
Sandor has been working with the lost-wax method and experimenting new ways to cast bronze economically to achieve the desired surface on the casted piece.
Artist’s Statement:
“I’ve been drawing, carving, painting all my life, perhaps longer. I just don’t remember.
Growing up I had guidance on how to put ideas into form from teachers, friends and the company I kept and valued. What to do seems to come easy to me – so many things around us, things that belong to now. The execution is a long struggle to satisfy myself.
To show what is there is a great skill…But the goal is to go beyond that. The hard part is to cross the line, when you will show more than the reality, and do it with a simple form that you don’t have to explain. The figure is just to manifest the thought. It has no face, because it is an idea…If you do cross the line, it doesn’t mean that you’re on the other side.
I love shaping the piece to the idea … defend it on completion … hear what others see in it. A smile is a great reward! Casting all that work in bronze is a skill. One mistake and I am back with the idea. It tests me all the time.”
Dundas potter Scott Barnim is known for his extensively decorated stoneware, often featuring a signature fish motif.Scott has a Masters Degree in Ceramic from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and has taught numerous courses and workshops at Sheridan College, Mohawk College and DVSA.Scott has exhibited with Fusion, the Ontario Crafts Council and the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art.
Anita was born and raised near Chesterfield Inlet which is on the west coast of Hudson Bay. She began carving in 1996 after watching her father carve when she was a child. She also has learned from, and worked with, other well-known Inuit artists such as George Arlook, Alex Alikashuak and Lucy Tasseo. In addition to being a sculptor, she is multi-talented as she is also a singer/musician and painter. Her work has been exhibited across North America and abroad and has been recognized in the Inuit Art Quarterly. Today she is an internationally known Inuk stone carver.
Some of her favorite subjects include dancing bears, Sednas, mothers and children, owls, masks, and sea spirits. Before Anita begins a carving, she sees the image in the raw stone and, by working the stone, she releases the image from it. Anita’s carvings are wonderfully exuberant and beautifully balanced with minimal detail, flowing lines and gentle curves. She currently resides in Winnipeg, MB.
Artist Statement
“I found I could form any figure in the stone, provided the right tools, supplies and a good place to work ...I believe I am helping the Inuit culture through my work...ten years ago I had no idea how important this was to Inuit culture and it was a real honor to be doing it and to be able to talk about it...I have a clear picture beforehand and then I have to find the stone...the work practically becomes a part of me..I just enjoy doing this carving…I carve to emphasize my identity as an Inuit carver, and “the Inuit” of who are and where we’re coming from. I make polar bears because there are none in the universe except in the Arctic...once I start carving I let myself go...I get carried away...but make my bears as carefree and as happy-go lucky as I can. That’s just the way I want my spirit to be.”
Born in Quebec and raised in Ontario, Vicki has had a life long interest in painting. She has painted professionally since 1990 after winning the "Best of Show" award in her first public exhibit with the Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists.
Primarily self-taught, with additional tutoring from top international instructors, Vicki’s inspiration has resulted in her passion for the pastels which has become her preferred medium of choice. Workshops and involvement with local art groups make her education on going.
Vicki has been recognized for her dramatic skies, colourful responses to subtle fluctuations of light that dance across the landscape. Favouring rural settings around the Great Lakes region she paints en plein air as well as from her studio in Guelph, ON. Since 1990 Vicki has been a signature member of the Pastel Artists Canada and she is also a Member of the Central Ont. Art Assoc., Past President of the Guelph Creative Arts Assoc. and active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
Vicki's work has been featured in International Artists & Pastel Artists Magazines and is a regular participant in local art auctions and group exhibits, to her credit she has received over 40 awards, with the most recent being the Best of Show in the International Worldwide Plein Air Painting competition in Niagara Falls, earlier in 2007 she was pleased to receive the Best of Show award in 'Paint Ontario' annual juried show in Lambton Museum, Grand Bend. In May 2007 she had a solo exhibit at the Guelph Civic Museum focused around the century old Jesuit Retreat and Farming Community in Guelph.
Vicki has participated in over 110 Invitational and juried shows since 1990 and has been a plein air instructor for the Wellington Museum of Summer School arts program sharing her experience and knowledge of the pastel medium. Her work is currently represented by Barber Gallery, McDonald Stewart Gallery, Marten Fine Arts Gallery, Glenhyrst Art Gallery and Gallery On the Grand.
Reuben Nakian, was born in 1897 in College Point, New York. He is recognized as a major figure in 20th Century art, his long career touching more of American art history than most artists, living or dead.
He enjoyed a long and distinguished career, maintaining his innovative nymph spirit and creativity over more than seventy years, constantly rethinking and revising his modes of sculptural expression and exploring and mastering new media. His work is characterized as bold, massive, rough textured forms organically draped or leaning heavily against one another. Most are abstract portrayals of themes from classical mythology and are generally noted for their spontaneous sensuality.
Nakian received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Nebraska and Bridgeport, medals from the Philadelphia College of Art and the American Academy/National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture. He was the recipient of awards from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Brandeis University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He was also the guest of honor at the Famous Artist’s Evening at the White House (1966), and the Smithsonian Institution produced a documentary on his life and work titled “Reuben Nakian: Apprentice to the Gods,” in 1985. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1931 and a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1958, and he represented the United States as the major sculptor in the VI Bienal in Sao Paulo, Brazil (1961) and the 1968 Biennale in Venice, Italy.
Nakian’s work is represented in the permanent collections and sculpture gardens of many of America’s most prestigious museums and institutions. He died on December 4, 1986 in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of eighty-nine.
Michael Close was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and received his education at the University of Guelph, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and Ontario College of Art.
As early as the 1970’s Michael has sought the synthesis of both the intellect and the sensual in an attempt to arrive at some universal truth. This is what led him to focus on images of the human face to which we all respond, more or less intensely; some eliciting emotional sensations, others appealing directly to our intellect. Set in flat, non-existent space, these simplified forms whose contours are bold and energized and animated calligraphically by line and colour, fuse into one another in a fiction of shifting points of view.
It is the artist’s intention in these works to combine a variety of elements and experiences to serve the conveyance of truth and beauty to his viewers in the spirit of the freedom in which they were created.
Michael Close had more than fifteen solo shows in museums around the world. And his works are in the permanent collection of: National Art Gallery and Cultural Centre (Honiara, Soloman Islands); Bitola Museum (Bitola, Macedonia); Prilep Museum, (Prilep, Macedonia); Ohrid Museum (Ohrid Macedonia); Skopje City Museum (Skopje, Macedonia), Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych "Art Stilon", Museum, Poland; National Gallery, (Macedonia).
Toronto artist Nancy Hunter was a native of Dundas and trained at DVSA, Ryerson Polytechnical and the Ontario College of Art, Toronto. She has taken part in many juried exhibitions throughout Ontario and was awarded the Viola Depew ‘Best in Show’ award of the Women’s Art Association of Hamilton.
Artist’s statement
“I have been a practicing artist for the past 14 years since graduating from The Ontario College of Art and Design.I’ve been involved in a number of exhibitions locally, namely, On The Edge – an artists group from Dundas, in which we visited and painted images from the surrounding Hamilton Region Conservation areas.The culmination of the project was the publication of On The Edge: A ShrinkingLandscape(two of my paintings are included).”
As a dentist whose career was cut short I’ve gone from interpreting x-rays to interpreting nature through the lens of a digital camera. Every image whether it is animals, landscapes
or buildings tells a story and I get a great deal
of satisfaction telling that story through my camera and my prints.
Black and white or colour, I find beauty in every subject resulting in a very eclectic portfolio. Without a single passion or niche, photography allows me to experiment and the variety is very fulfilling. To complete the picture I also choose the wood for the frames, cut the glass and mattes and assemble the final product.
My latest foray is in panoramic photography. Using a tripod and a panoramic head, multiple images (up to 12) are shot and then stitched together in Photoshop to give the desired effect.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1959 and educated at McMaster University and the University of Western Ontario for Dentistry, I practiced for 15 years. I make my home in Dundas with my wife Diane, a potter, however spend about 5 months a year in Killarney and 2 months a year in Italy.
Artist’s Statement:
“As the events of everyday unfold around us, it is hard for us to see the splendor that surrounds us. Hectic modern lifestyles and stimulus overload inhibit our senses, masking the beauty of everyday life. My photography’s mission is to seek out this elusive beauty and commemorate it in stunning photographs. My themes are as diverse as the world that surrounds us. From the old world beauty of Tuscany, to the wonders of my own hometown, I capture timeless moments as they pass by.”
