Born and raised in Amesbury, Massachusetts - I have always pursued my love of art and painting.  As a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, I received a dual degree in business administration and studio art.  Both my life experiences and artistic achievements have influenced my painting style which immerses the viewer in color and depth.

I once heard somewhere that you re-create yourself every 7 years. More specifically people tend to change jobs or careers every 5 - 7 years. I think as a committed artist, this has been proven completely true in my life. I've been employed as a bartender, waiter,a hotel manager, a graphic artist, a scenic artist, an art director, a dj, a restaurant owner, a chef and most recently a "struggling" artist.

In the late '80s that 7 year itch hit me hard. I was employed in marketing for a cabaret style concert venue in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, and moonlighting every evening as a bartender - to "pay the bills";  but as it always does, my creative drive was calling for more in my life. I decided their had to be something I could do in Hollywood,.... Movies. Countless others have ventured to Hollywood to make their mark and countless more will in years to come, but in 1989, I packed up my stuff and drove away from southern New Hampshire in a rented U-haul. I did have a moment of sanity and decided I would back door my way in to Hollywood via Orlando Florida! Huh?
Actually it was a smart move - you see they were building Universal Studios Florida at the time, and I figured they must need creative people in the process. Sure enough my theory proved correct and shortly I found myself employed as a scenic artist at the newly constructed theme park. It took artists like myself to turn the new construction across the park and movie backlot to give it that look of realism, that look that it had always been there. Our team painted everything from rocks, to rust, to faux bird droppings!
To celebrate the opening of the 'Movie Studio' in 1990 they planned to actually film a movie there. That movie was to be "Psycho IV" the fourth sequel to the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller 'Psycho'. The movie would star Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates and the Bates Motel and Psycho house would be built on the backlot (the original motel and house is at the Universal Studios in Hollywood)

I knew I had to work on that movie and promptly began hounding the lead painter on the film crew, for a job. I was hired on to the art department for the movie and had the amazing opportunity to re-create exactly, one of the most famous film sets in movie history. We recreated the motel, Bates house, mother's room, even the famous shower!