I’ve always loved stories. As a child, I got lost in books, often reading late into the early hours. I spent hours wandering the halls of the Met and MoMA, falling in love with the chiaroscuro of Da Vinci and Rembrandt and the drama of high shadows. Then, in my teens, I discovered Salvador Dalí and the beautifully strange. His collaboration with Disney on the short film Destino changed everything for me. It showed me that art could be classical and surreal, meticulous and full of dream logic. It could be everything and anything.

Animation soon became another great love. I collected books on animated films and studied every behind-the-scenes sketch I could find. This passion led me to an undergraduate degree in filmmaking and later a master’s in Visual Development for Animation. But through it all, I kept coming back to my own artwork, drawing, painting, experimenting. Over the years, I’ve explored charcoal, oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, collage, bookbinding, and more.

While my work sometimes spans styles and mediums, at its core is a reverence for beauty, a love of the subliminal, and a respect for classical technique. I believe realism and imagination don’t cancel each other out, they expand one another. I strive to create artwork filled with storytelling which viewers find visceral and meaningful.