With over 30 years experience as an artist, Sam concentrates his full time efforts to commissioned landscapes and portraits. His widely acclaimed artists' workshops in Tuscany, Amalfi and Sicily Italy and the U.S. continues to grow in popularity. Graduating from Providence College, he studied at:
The Paier School of Art, Hamden, CT under portrait artist, Joseph Funaro Lyme Academy of Art under Dan Gheno Landscape painter, Thomas Beuchner of Elmira, New York The Scottsdale Artist School in advanced landscape painting with Skip Whitcomb of Fort Collins, Colorado Block Island, RI with Mel Stabin the Plein Air Painter's of America Workshop 2003 in Old Lyme, CT with Matt Smith and Kevin McPherson
After teaching art in a area colleges, he has developed a 10-week program of art instruction in oil painting in Middlebury and Essex, CT. An annual portrait workshop is given every November. He was chosen by American Artist Magazine as a landscape-painting instructor at the 2004 Art Methods and Materials Show in Pasadena, California. He was also appointed for a two-year term to the State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts and served on its Executive Committee. Current painting projects include original paintings of New England and Tuscany, Italy as well as selected landscape and portrait commissions.
He is an Elected Artist at Kent Art Association, Kent, CT and is a member of CT Plein Air Assoc., National Plein Air Artists and CT Society of Portrait Artists
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Sicily - Paint-out Non-instructed art workshop with everyone just painting together. Plein Air Painting Land/Seascapes, all mediums. Beginners to Advanced painters. Non-painting guests welcome.
