Self-employed as an artist, producing photo-realist drawings and paintings (colored pencil, oil and acrylics), including commissioned work.
Instructor since 1990 at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida, teaching courses in drawing, colored pencil, oil and acrylic painting.
Featured workshop presenter at the Colored Pencil Society of America’s annual convention, August 2005. Registered teacher with the Michael Wilcox School of Color. Other experience includes teaching at the Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg; conducting workshops; guest lectures; show judging; instructing design and illustration at St. Petersburg Junior College and Tampa College; agency and free-lance graphic design, layout and copywriting; and gallery installation.
Past President of CPSA District Chapter 113.
Signature member and board member, Miniature Artists of America.
Member and past Board member, Miniature Art Society of Florida.
Member, board member and past newsletter editor, Professional Association of Visual Artists (PAVA).
The Drawing Board: Mix It Up, feature article The Artist’s Magazine, October 2012 – step-by-step article on a mixed media technique, written by and featuring artwork by the artist.
One of 16 artists featured in Creative Colored Pencil Portraits by Vera Curnow (1996); Drawings also in the books The Best of Colored Pencil 2 (1994), The Best of Colored Pencil III (1996), The Best of Colored Pencil 5 (1999), Portrait Inspirations (1997), and Creative Colored Pencil, by Vera Curnow (1995). (All from Rockport Publishers.) Also in The Best of Portrait Painting (North Light Books, 1997).
Featured in “Methods & Materials: Drawing with Wax-Based Colored Pencils,” by Christopher Willard, American Artist Magazine, November 1996 and American Artist Drawing Highlights, 1999.
Artwork used in advertising and brochures for Derwent pencils, Bruynzeel and Prismacolor and Staedtler colored pencils, and Stonehenge paper by Legion Paper, and other papers by Canson.
“Official Tour Artist” since 1998 for the Dunedin Historical Society, illustrating the homes on the Society’s biennial fundraising tours, their museum, and other historic buildings.
Other clients have also included numerous individuals; Pinellas County, Florida (St. Petersburg – Clearwater International Airport); Morton Plant- Mease Health Care (Clearwater and Dunedin, FL); Frazer, Hubbard, Brandt, Trask & Yacavone LLP (Dunedin, FL); Florida Eye Center (St. Petersburg, FL); Berkeley Preparatory School (Tampa, FL); McDonald’s regional office (Cleveland, OH); Wesley Health Care Center (Saratoga Springs, NY); Herman, Cahn & Schneider (Cleveland, OH); and Lake Erie College (Painesville, OH).
Ormond Memorial Museum of Art, Ormond Beach; Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs; St Petersburg College; Pasco Hernando State College; Ridge Art Association, Winter Haven; Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach; Maitland Art Center; Venice Art Center; St. Augustine Art Association; Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers; Lake Wales Art Council; High Springs Gallery, High Springs; La Cittadella Gallery, West Palm Beach; Edison Community College, Ft. Myers; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art; Polk County Community College, Winter Haven; Florida Southern College, Lakeland; Octagon Art Center, Clearwater; Riverwalk Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale; St. Petersburg College, Clearwater.
Cleveland Museum of Art; Canton (OH) Art Institute; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH; School of Fine Arts, Willoughby, OH; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.