Growing Up

Growing up outside of Cleveland Ohio in a musical family, my Mom and Dad provided my 3 sisters and myself with a strong appreciation for the joy of creative effort, and the value of art and music in the human experience. For this, and much more I will always be grateful. • A National Scholastics Art Scholarship winner, and Honors graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, I have spent my professional life as a portrait artist, illustrator, graphic designer/art director and for 15 years as co-founder and creative director of Successories Inc. • Having accomplished all I wanted to in the commercial art world, it was time for me to embark on a new journey...the journey of an artist whose expressions are more personal, and directed only from within. Over the last 12 years, my wife and I had traveled often to New Mexico,