I consider myself an eternal student. I’ve been studying with Max Ginsburg and Sharon Sprung at the Art Student’s League of New York, two realist painters with different approaches. I’m deeply appreciative of the instructions I have received from each of them and of the League as an institution, where visual art in all its many forms is celebrated, nurtured, and preserved.

With the utter luxury of two models per session, it seems almost sinful to find myself gazing at the moments between sittings. Yet what I have loved and observed quietly and absolutely relished are these candid moments of students, teachers and models on break. It’s become a practice of mine to capture them in a photo or a quick sketch and then imagine them as paintings some day in the future.