After a successful career in the Chicago area, which included earning an MBA from the University of Chicago and running his own business for thirty years, Bernard — better known as Bernie — retired early in the 2000s to pursue his life-long ambition to become a fine-art painter. He found fertile ground in the wondrous desert and mountain landscapes of the Southwest and Rockies and also in the art-rich community of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

It wasn’t long before galleries in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico were exhibiting his spectacular watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings, which over time won many awards and recognitions. Hundreds of them are now found in personal, corporate and civic collections.

Together, Bernie and his wife Martha — who is both a nature photographer and an historical novelist — visited dozens of America’s national parks and monuments, as well as other scenic and historic places.

Bernie passed away peacefully of pre-existing causes (not Covid-19) in December 2020.

Since then Martha, who first built this site for him in 2014, has redone it to make available about 250 of his paintings, either as originals or as custom-made, top-quality giclée prints in a wide variety of sizes and prices.

She also has published a memoir about their life together. See it on Amazon:  BETTING ON BERNIE, A MEMOIR OF A MARRIAGE.