I began my journey to fine art at 35, working nights as a guard at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where I taught myself to draw by copying Old Masters. At 41, I followed my wife abroad and completed a two-year independent study of Drawings at the British Museum in London. When we returned to New York I studied life drawing and watercolor at The Art Students League, and earned my MFA in Drawing from the New York Academy of Art (2021). Now 53, I teach Cast Drawing and Life Drawing at the Art Students League of New York. My late start is my strength — it allows me to teach with empathy and draw with rigor. My art path is proof that it’s never too late — to learn, to teach, or to make work that carries tradition forward with every stroke.