Artist Profile

Posted on Sunday, October 1, 2006

I have always involved in visual arts from as far back as I remember, and after graduating school, went directly to work in a graphics department of a large company.

There, I took on all projects and even invented a few. Also during this time, I was creating paintings and entering them in shows, winning awards. I continued my education here, but it was a few years before this vocation became a full-time career.

After a laid off in late 1987, I bought my first computer...a Commodore Amiga, with one whole MB of RAM!

I started toying around with Deluxe Paint, and got involved in a project where I was creating images for a software game that ultimately never got finished. But I was at least indoctrinated in the use of computers, which brought me up to date in the job market, and in 1988 I went on to become increasingly involved with typesetting and design on a Mac.

Around this point, I had started to create the paintings that I would eventually be selling in my gallery. By 1993, I had about 50 paintings and set up in my studio/gallery. The paintings started to sell immediately, and I found myself suddenly thrust in this position of producing original as well as commissioned work. The demands of running a shop became overwhelming however, and took away focus from creating and producing, and after over 350 paintings produced and sold, I closed the shop and spent time to refocus.

Commissioned and freelance work continued, from faux finish and murals to more paintings, and I got heavily back into computer aided layout and design.

Currently I am still doing commissioned fine art, and the digital design work I have started doing in the last 2 years is taking off. Now I'm putting a lot of energy into creating digital fine art, apart from the design work itself, and I'm currently working on getting a studio set up again so I can dive back into the paintings full time.