About yours truly…

I am an American artist, and currently live in the mountains of New Hampshire. For my first several years living in the Land of Ice and Snow, I concentrated on painting regional landscapes, and on running a gallery of fine art & craft (The Cassidy Gallery At Jackson Village), where for ten years I represented about fifty artists as well as selling my own work.

From my earliest memories, around age 2 or 3, I was fascinated by colors, especially rich, saturated colors. My Aunt Annette, with whom I lived for a few months while my mother recovered from a near-fatal ectopic pregnancy, had clear plastic clothespins in jewel-like tones, which I loved to play with.  From there, I began to draw. I was fascinated with the brightness of the birds from the Amazon, especially the quetzal and scarlet macaws! While I do remember drawing them from books around age 4-5, I was fortunate my Aunt Marie-Ann saved several of my drawings. Now that I’m decades older, Aunt Marie’s influence and her dedication to her skill in fashion design informs my current work.

After earning a MFA in Visual Art, I taught drawing, painting, and perspective extensively throughout Connecticut and Vermont at colleges, art associations and art centers as well as privately at my studio and on location with private clients, the most notably of whom was the late comedienne Joan Rivers from 2006 to 2010.  I also conducted workshops for faculty enrichment and for corporate team-building in Connecticut and in New York City.