1995
I was five years old when I picked up a pencil and felt the thrill of bringing something from my imagination to life on paper. I knew then what I wanted to be, and took every drawing I made as an opportunity to express myself better.
A couple decades later, I’m still chasing that same feeling. I keep my own painting practice as a way to balance the restrictions and deadlines of my agency work, and to engage in other types of creative endeavors.
I like to express a sense of both stillness and intensity in my paintings. I often paint animals because of my respect and my appreciation for how evolution — the ultimate designer — has shaped every living thing on this planet to look and perform a certain way.
To me, painting is the ultimate expression of who I am; it’s when I’m the most sensitive but also when I feel the strongest. Nowadays being an artist takes being more tactical, and my agency background and my personal work constantly feed off one another.
