Brief History

I developed a fascination for Art at an early age and at 12, was asked to attended studio classes at Lock Haven University. Unfortunately, this only lasted 2 years and I am self taught otherwise.

In 1989 I moved close to Manhattan to grow as an artist. In 1995 I turned to Illustration and was published by the Washington Post a year later. I soon became a regular with the LA Times and have since worked with hundreds of newspapers and magazines. The kind of conceptual work I do is typically suited for editorial content. But, this kind of problem solving works well in many other areas from, corporate publications and institutional material to advertising on a lot of levels. I have been published in Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, Australia, China and throughout the United States. See client list below.

In 2005, I started personal work again. Expressing myself, instead of predetermined content was liberating and by 2007, had a series of 30 paintings and got on with two galleries. Then, the recession happened and people stopped buying art. The dip in the economy gave me the opportunity to think about why the majority of people are disconnected from modern art. Why is it that some people like it, when the reasons for making it are usually so vague. There’s certainly no shortage of perplexing terms in modernism but, it does lack clear communication. When I examined my own work, I realized that it too, lacked an, “explainable,” method, which was troubling. How could I continue painting if my work was derivative, simply decorative or void of meaning. This realization started a journey of self discovery that I’m still exploring today.