A graduate of the Corcoran School of Art & Design, Rick obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and began a career in Graphic Design. However his passion for painting never ceded and he painted all throughout his career. Now retired from graphics and advertising, he is following his passion exclusively for fine art with oil painting in landscapes, portraits and many other subjects. Having acquired a well-rounded background through decades in illustration, direct mail, all forms of graphic and advertising work, he has learned to think out of the box and has made millions of dollars for his clients. This dicipline and hard work is now translated into his passion for fine art painting. He now brings his attention to detail and color theory into his realistic paintings and are now available to the public in very reasonably priced prints.