Ric began his art training after returning to college from a year away working. He packed four years of art classes into two and graduated from the University of Northern Colorado as a teacher of Fine Arts.
As an Art Teacher Ric taught all grades in his first teaching experience in Troy, NY. He would later return to teach in his childhood school in Westchester County, NY
Georgia Watercolor Master Tony Couch is Ric’s favorite teacher.
Re-locating to inner city Buffalo, this former Bucks County, Pennsylvania artist now calls New York home once again. He and Leigh Anne are new urban farmers, providing fresh produce for their neighbors on Buffalo's east side. (www.QueenCityFarm.org)
Ric has been juried into shows in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia as well as the International Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society. He recently became a member of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society.
He and Leigh Anne (a portrait artist, teacher and urban farmer) have been married 35 years. They have four children and 5 grandchildren with number 6 on the way.
Over the years Ric has developed logos, brochures, and book covers along with painting for pleasure and profit.
He has been creating watercolors exclusively for the past decade. His work is in numerous private collections and currently in galleries in Denver, CO Long Beach Island, NJ, Monroe, GA and Buffalo, NY.
He has donated pieces for fund raising for Relay for Life, churches and the 10th anniversary of the I.O.C.’s Atlanta Games and Buffalo's Queen City Farms.
As artists, followers of Christ and urban farmers, Ric and Leigh Anne joyfully struggle to daily live out the answer to the question "What would Jesus do?" Their best answer, "Love God. Move to the city. Grow life. Restore dignity."
