The Start: Finger-painting at 2 with NYC art museum walks at 4. A painting class at MOMA at eight. Three years of life drawing during Architect training (Bauhaus methods: 10 second action sketches, hand-eye coordination exercises), plus later workshops with Artists Peter London (“No More Secondhand Art”) and Seymour Segal (National Gallery of Canada artist) helped lead Alan to his own painting language. In 1993, he switched careers from architecture to Special Education, and joined NHAA. He also began "Portraits of Zinkov," a collection of over 40 works to honor victims of the Holocaust. Now retired in New London, NH, he has time to paint and widely exhibit.

Subjects: Observed and imagined land-sea-cloud-cosmos scapes, environmental/historical commentary, portraits, experience and mood abstracts. Style variety conveys Alan’s intentions via bright and/or contrasting color, perspective manipulation, memory and dream-modified reality. In painting his experience, his view of the world of possibilities, he hopes the viewer is spurred to consider his/her own journey for questioning and reflection. Alan uses Acrylic paint: It is easy to set up, use, modify; important features, as his paintings usually evolve, and even change significantly, as he works.