
Jeff has practiced architecture professionally for almost 25 years. He has a B.S. from The Georgia Institute of Technology (Architecture) and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Maryland (UMD). Having spent most of his career in the Washington, DC area, Jeff has spent the last four plus years working in his native Cleveland, Ohio.
Jeff has been an adjunct design critic in the UMD School of Architecture for undergraduate and graduate design studios. Throughout his career in architecture, which has included design at all scales and the implementation of various building types, he has always maintained the craft of draftsmanship in his work – once called by a mentor an “architect’s architect”. This penchant for illustration in the design process translates into Jeff’s paintings where a perspective, a detail, a form or shadow are drawn with presentational care. That said, rather than realism, he strives to interpret his subject in exciting representational fashion through the painting medium itself.
He is inspired by the impressionist painters Paul Cezanne, Mary Cassatt, Monet, Renoir, post-impressionist Van Gogh, American artists Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. He has studied with noted, award winning contemporary impressionist and plein air painters, including Hiu Lai Chong, Randy Sexton, Colin Page, Bernie Dellario, Peggi Kroll Roberts, Ray Roberts and colorist Camille Przewodek. These studies have most often been on location, painting en plein-air or at artist schools – venues on both coasts including The Scottsdale Artist School (Scottsdale, AZ), Plein-Air Liaison (Petaluma, CA), Chesapeake Fine Art Studio (Stevensville, MD), Easton School (Easton, MD), or the Art League (Alexandria, VA).
