Biography
Hello, and welcome to my website.
I was born in Milwaukee, but I moved to South Jersey when I was 4 years old and grew up in the Jersey-side suburbs of Philadelphia. Since 2007, I’ve been living in Fukui prefecture, Japan.
My interest in art has existed for as long as I can remember. As a child, drawing was my favorite hobby. For most of my youth I had a pencil in my left hand, or a mouse in my right, and from a very early age I have enjoyed both traditional drawing methods and digital art. It wasn’t until high school art class that I first seriously tried using paint, ink, and other media besides pencil and digital.
I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2005 from Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL where I majored in Illustration. During my junior year of college I spent a month doing a homestay study abroad program in Kanazawa, Japan, which has strongly influenced my art style.
I love, and paint in, both traditional and digital media. Most of my recent paintings are done on a tablet PC using GIMP, an open-source image manipulation program, as I was unable to bring many traditional painting supplies with me when I moved to Japan. My current artistic inspiration comes from Japanese ink paintings and woodblock prints, and the masters of fantasy illustration.
I hope you enjoy my site and my art.