Artist

"Even though I have never had an art lesson, I have always loved to draw. As a child, I copied cartoons from comic books, then moved on to chalk drawings in our driveway and on the sidewalk in front of our family home in Ardmore, PA.

I’ve always worked in charcoal and occasionally in pen & ink. I guess it’s because I prefer the dynamism of various shades of gray to color. I took a years-long hiatus from art once I started college in 1967 and did not return to my art until the 1990s when I was a judge.

The proceeds from the sales of most of my charcoal drawings have been donated to local nonprofit organizations supporting children, women who have survived domestic violence, and youth of color involved in the arts. I have given the rest of my drawings to the special people in my life."