About me

I love what I do. I am so happy to have found that thing – that divine mission– that is mine. There is an undeniable satisfaction in taking an area that is gray or drab and lifeless and adding something that is beautiful and vibrant and lively. I hope to enjoy it for many years to come. 

I was 36 years old when I first picked up a paintbrush – that was many decades ago. Before that I had no idea I could even paint, but I always loved to doodle. I had gone through some life changing events in 1998, including a serious NDE, and through those events I met a older mural artist. That unusual meeting was the beginning of my painting career.  

I started outside of Buffalo in Darien New York, where the famed folk artist Charlie Flagg took me under his wing.  I spent just a year and a half under his guidance before I started to receive my own commissions. Shortly after I moved to Florida I joined the Clearwater Mural Association and started painting in the Florida area.  After spending a few years in the Clearwater, St Pete area I moved to Gainesville where I joined the local mural committee there and began painting in the area counties and further north. 

In 2006 I followed hurricane Katrina to New Orleans and spent the next decade repairing art and murals in the damaged houses and began painting murals for local restaurants in the French Quarter area. I was even a Jackson Square artist for a number of years.

Between 2009 and 2012 I started to return home to my roots in upstate New York and began painting murals in the St Lawrence River towns of Alex Bay, Clayton and Cape Vincent. In 2012 I started a decade of adventure traveling around Central America, to Costa Rica and to Nicaragua, where I spent many years in jungles, on beaches and started to paint in hotels and restaurants along the beach properties. 

When the pandemic hit in 2020, it changed everything. Travel was difficult and the money became tight as the world started to change. I returned home to my roots in upstate New York and decided it was time to establish a gallery. I bought St Lawrence Pottery in Clayton to house my studio, and I learned to paint on pottery, glaze and fire. 

The River is my home, this is where my roots are, and I am happy to be here now creating one-of-a-kind murals for clients far and wide.

Now, here I am 20+ years later with many hundreds of murals, interior and exterior, in over 7 States and 2 countries. I have come a long way from the first days of carrying a paint can and a single brush, painting nonsense on some crazy surface for free – think rocks and dilapidated old barns. Now I have the ability to paint huge structures with the aid of scaffolding, high lifts, cherry pickers or window washing equipment. I've lost my sense of fear and have replaced it with a huge feeling of satisfaction.

I love what i do, I do it for the challenge to my abilities, to communicate with my soul and most importantly, to bring joy to the viewers senses as they pass by. It helps to lift people's soul and give everyone a reason to be proud of where they live. From the poorest barrios of Central America to the cities and neighborhoods of the USA, I have witnessed the change in peoples feelings about their hometown after creating a work of art just for them. It lightens the spirit, and creates connection. 

My mentor is now 80 years old. When I went to see him in August of 2023, he was painting a old Edsel that will never run, full of folk art. 

I am inspired to create until I can create no more. 

I am available for hire and I travel internationally.