My life as an artist began at the age of six in the studio of my maternal grandfather, Edward Volkert, an American impressionist painter of German origin, who was a member of the Old Lyme, CT artist's colony. Due to my mother's fragile health, I

My life as an artist began at the age of six in the studio of my maternal grandfather, Edward Volkert, an American impressionist painter of German origin, who was a member of the Old Lyme, CT artist's colony. Due to my mother's fragile health, I