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"Painting is my way of communicating my most intimate

impressions of nature and my deep feeling about my subject

and the world around me. As an artist, I try to interpret nature

because it is also my basic belief, that nature is a true source

of our peace. If my work has touched someone and brought

the viewer to a place of peace and insight, it will have

reached it's goal."

Born in 1939 in Woodbury, New Jersey. His training as an

artist was at the Philadelphia College of Art, The

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, San Antonio College and

the San Antonio Art Institute. BA, MFA, Greenwich University,

He worked as an illustrator for the Army medical center in

Texas. Don moved to NW Arkansas in 1981 and taught art at

North Arkansas College,1983-2005. Presently, he paints full

time and also teaches watercolor and egg tempera

workshops.

"I chose the medium of egg tempera as it allows me to work

with pure pigment and I add each color layer by layer

producing a luminous quality. Pigment mixed with water

mixed or tempered by egg yolk is the medium artists have

used in the early Renaissance before linseed oil was used. It

has made a comeback in recent years."

He is a member of the Society of Egg Tempera Painters. The

Eureka Springs Artist Guild and the Ozark Mountain Artist

Group.

His work can be found in private and corporate collections.