I’ve been making art for as long as I can remember, but it started in a very specific way. When I was a child, I would sit on the floor listening to cassette tapes that told stories and then played music to allow the listener to draw what they imagined. I loved the challenge of translating my mental images into something tangible. My earliest memories also include countless hours exploring the woods of Upstate New York, and I connect deeply with nature to this day as it allows me to return to my true self.

A lifetime of drawing and painting has led me down several paths, including a degree in Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology.  I have made a living in commercial product design for the past 20 years.  Alongside this career I have relied on my personal art to explore an inner world in a way that is neglected in a corporate setting.

My paintings mirror the idea of the outer “presentable” version of myself under fluorescent lights, and the hidden, messy, dark recesses of my mind.  At work, I create salable, palatable, and mass-market ready designs. A tendency toward fashionable colors and motifs does appear in my artwork, but it is enmeshed with my personal and raw interior world.   I want to play on the edge of this contradiction, and I often need to labor over a piece for weeks or months to allow for a symbiosis to occur between the softness of beauty and the acidity of the unseen.