Like most kids I started at a young age with a crayon in my fist, but unlike most normal kids,they couldn’t pry it out (I can still hear my dad screaming, “Who took all the pencils?” I also fell in love with fairy tales, rocket ships, and mythology, and this fascination has entangled itself throughout my work. A passion for animals and nature also gets wrapped up in the weave of my art so that a vast amount of my subject matter is a mix of creatures of another reality or mind set.

I survived my early years in Mesa, Arizona, living on a diet of science fiction,comic books, spring board diving, and gymnastics. At age 19 I escaped the suburban desert, for the land of Oz, also known as the city of Los Angeles, California. There I wallowed in the delights of the multi cultural movie madness with the varied professions of graphic artist for the Los Angeles Zoo, art director for a small educational publishing firm, children's illustrator, and finally at age 30 I entered the world of TV animation as a story board artist. For the past many years I have worked for just about every large animation studio, and also illustrate for fantasy roll playing and collectable card games.