BORN
1968, Capetown, South Africa

EDUCATION
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Certificate Program, Painting Major, 1991 - 1995
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, BA in Fine Arts with departmental honors, 1987 - 1991

TEACHING
Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, Instructor of Portrait Painting, May 1997 - May 2000
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Teaching Assistant, Painting, January 1991 - May 1991

GRANTS
Stobart Foundation, April 1995
Watkins, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May 1994

AWARDS
Mansion Inn Award, Bianco Foundation Juried Exhibition, June 1999
Richard Hughes Award, 69th Annual Phillips Mill Juried Exhibition, September 1998
Fellowship Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May 1995
Daniel Garber Drawing Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May 1995
Henry Thouron Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May 1994
Irma S. Cook Drawing Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May 1994
Louis and Estelle Pearson Painting Prize for Figure in Landscape, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May 1994
Cecilia Beaux Portrait Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, May 1993
Best of Show, Thesis Exhibition, Wesleyan University, April 1991

EXHIBITIONS (abridged)
Courthouse Gallery FIne Art, Ellsworth Revisited: The Artist’s View (inaugural exhibit), Ellsworth, ME, July 2006
Artists’ House Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, April 2006
Riverbank Arts, Featured Artist, Stockton, NJ, November 2005 - January 2006
William Baczek Fine Arts, Still Lifes, Northampton, MA, January 2005
Riverbank Arts, Featured Artist, Stockton, NJ, November 2004 - January 2005
Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial, Rockport, ME, 2004
Principle Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition, Alexandria, VA, May - August 2004
Artists’ House Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, April 2004
Vose Galleries, Mentors and Proteges, Boston, MA, November - January 2004
William Baczek Fine Arts, Solo Exhibition, Northampton, MA, October - November 2003
Arnot Museum, Representing Representation VI, Elmira, NY, April - June 2003
Martin Art Gallery, Art History’s Heroes: The Masters of Contemporary Realism
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, June 2003