I decided to be an artist in third grade, after the response I got from my drawing of the Mayflower ship landing at Plymouth Rock. After getting my B.F.A. from UCLA, I went to the Art Center in Los Angeles.

I always looked for art related jobs while going to school, like silk screen printing, sign painting, and architectural rendering. At Art Center, I got interested in advertising design and got my first full time job as an art director in New York City. In that position I was hiring artists, but I wanted to be one of them. So I started illustrating for other art directors I had met. I went freelance and drew storyboards for commercials and illustrations for ads and learned how to airbrush. Several years later I took up watercolor and struggled to make a living in that medium. But I really found my niche when I discovered the world of digital art. For the past 14 years I've been doing digital illustration and animation for a variety of clients, many of them in the medical field.