Born dreaming, eyes wide and starving for images......made a rocket ship out of pencil and crayons at age 4, emblazoned U.S.A on the same rocket.....made it a birthday card at age 5.

Watched too much TV...cartoons looping through cartoons...I remember "Steamboat Willy" as if it was 1945 and I was stomping through windy Chicago streets, head down and suspenders stretched outward.

My mother was my first art teacher, she taught me the confidence of the line and turned on the pilot light of my imagination. I watched her create and reinvent life on an everyday occurrence...never forgetting the best snow sculpture ever...snoopy and woodstock!

My first drawing class was on a blistery Saturday morning at the ripe age of eight years old...it was in a trailer with about ten other twelve year old students....my teacher was a man named Don Cole, he worked for Joe Kubert School of Cartoon Art. It was there that I learned all the tools of drawing, perspective, foreshortening, light and shadows, pencils, pens, inks, and creative organization...

I continued on with my studies at Joe Kubert's School Of Cartoon Art for many years, taking classes in Pen & Ink, Airbrushing, Block Printing, Caricature, Calligraphy, and even Special f/x make-up.

At age fourteen I met Ed Havas, a watercolorist and professor at Seton Hall University...although my time with him was brief, his guidance in painting and color I will never forget.

My High School taught me very little in visual art, so I had to go to Morris County Vo-Tech for half a day where I learned about graphic design and computer graphics. Walter Sturrock, a good friend and teacher taugt me about communicating with clients and imparted excellent design concepts as well. It was in these classes I realized that I would always be creating some form of art through a computer for the rest of my life. I had been making art on the computer since second grade, but with the growing advancements of technology, I realized art and its importance in this new age of technology and communication.

In 1993 I attended Maine College of Art and Design for a foundation summer session. This was my first real interaction with other serious fine artists and the first time I realized the full potential of my talents and passion for visual art.

After graduating High School, I went to Pennsylvania State University in Univeristy Park, PA for Graphic Design. It was here that I had my first embattlement with the beasts of passion and the saboteurs of happiness...in 1999 I withdrew from Penn State University and remained in town to paint full time and continue to study my "voice" in art. It was at this time that I realized the importance of music in art and discovered the lost language of jazz. For two years I painted, wrote poetry and played saxophone which then culminated in a gallery showing at Shakespear's Sister in State College.

Soon after my showing, the gallery closed down and I realized that my art would never reach its full potential in a small town in the middle of Pennsylvania.

I ventured across America in 2001 selling my art along the way...seeing this country in all its immensity and diversity as well as its rich history moved me greatly. And in those days I felt as if life whispered behind my ears.

I returned to State College in the fall of 2001 to continue my art and schooling. Soon after I began to work for AccuWeather Inc. and school and art took a back seat to my work with web design, graphic design, and managing a Jazz-fusion band called "The Daily Supplement".

In the summer of 2006, I left AccuWeather and moved to Philadelphia to begin VORCAN, an art production and abstract consulting firm. I began to collaboratively paint live music with Vort and within a year and half, VORCAN has painted over 250 live music performances as well as over 200 paintings in the studio. We have painted in jazz holes, state theaters, clubs, hotels, galleries, boats, convention centers, festivals, bedrooms and everything in between… Continuing to create everyday and get our art out into the world, I am excited to tour the United States and create art using all of the influences America has to offer. 50 Paintings in 50 States in 50 Days…