Artist Bio
Artistic Credentials:
Certified Professional Faux Finisher, Artist, Muralist, Decorative Painter.
Certified by National Paint and Decorating Retailers Association (PDRA), and Faux Finisher Magazine Certification program for Faux Finishers. Certification in Designer Wall Finishes. Licensed in Faux Effects products.
Certified in Venetian Plaster, Color and Gold Leaf Gilding by Buon Fresco
Continuing education in Advanced Color theory with D. Jansen; in Perspective and Trompe L’Oeil with P. Kirwin, in Gilding, and Landscape painting with Jean-Pierre Besenval of Paris; France; and Faux Marble with Laurent Deliot of Paris France; Michelle Santilli of NASODA in marbling and gilding, and Faux and Decorative Designer Finishes through The Finishing School of New York, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, and Faux Effects, Vero Beach.
Studied with more than 25 of the top Master Decorative Artists (MDA)s, and Certified Decorative Artists (CDAs) in the
and abroad.
Professional and Business Membership Affiliations with:
The Art League,
Alexandria, Virginia
The Nation's Capitol Chapter Society of Tole and Decorative Painters (NSTDP) Washington DC , Capitol Area Decorative Artisans, The National Stencil Artisan League, Inc;
Completed decorative painting of the gallery walls for the Art League Gallery in
Alexandria, Virginia in the old historic Torpedo Factory. The Art event was judged by the Design Director of The National Gallery of Art in
Washington DC .
