I began my artistic career at age three when my father showed me how to draw with pen and ink. I painted my first oil on canvas at age eight. Two decades later I was illustrating magazines, mostly literary, and small press books. I have illustrated eight volumes of poetry most notably for Esther Leiper, the poet laureate of New Hampshire.

This escalated into a few national and international publications and by the age of thirty, I had published over 2000 drawings in more than two dozen magazines.

I have illustrated short stories by Joyce Carol Oates and Mark Helprin. In 1983 my collected drawings were published in a book; "Avante Ink."

For seven years I was a staff illustrator for Crosscurrents Magazine and a frequent contributor to Pennsylvania Magazine and The North American Review, the world's oldest continuously published magazine.

Encouraged by artist friends, I began to paint seriously at age 40. When I completed my first seven paintings I showed them to a gallery and was immediately put into a group show and offered my first solo show a year later. Since then I have had 24 shows, five of them solo, in numerous galleries around Los Angeles.

From 1994-96 I was represented by the Rachellelozzi Gallery in Los Angeles, and from 1996-2000 was represented by both the sales and rental galleries of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art.