After graduating with honors from Belmont High School, I was awarded a one year scholarship to Chouarnard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and completed brief studies at Otis Art Institute, Art Center School of Design, and UCLA extension courses in painting, After a year, due to financal difficulities I had to put my education on hold, and was forced to seek employment. I was happy to get any kinda job related to art, and I was lucky my first time out.
So I began my artistic career as a production artist and advanced to product designer.. While employed by Nova Art and Brittini Studios, I developed a unique and radical approach to the designing of art products for home and office interior decoration, by created an assembly line art reproduction system, using a combination of silkscreen printing and hand painting, which allowed me to create a more cost effective product, with a more intricately detailed, and realistic subject matter, never before tried.
In 1976, I was hired by Artmasters Studio in North Hollywood, California as Art Director and Head of Research & Development, where I designed an extensive art product line, which included posters, prints, hand paintings, serigraphs, three-dimensional art, sculpture, lamps and mirror graphics. Due to my innovations at Artmasters Studio, the company became the nation's leader in the manufacturing of hand paintings and accessories for the home furnishing industry, and over the years, I gained national and international recognition as a leading designer in that field.
In 1993, after 26 years with Artmasters Studio, I resigned my position, to pursue the art career I always dreamed of. I quickly found out that it was more difficult than I had imagined breaking back into the fine art circles. Like starting all over again.
So After three decades as a successful Designer, Commercial Artist, and Illustrator I fond myself back in college with students half my age learning to use the computer and earning a certificate in Graphic Design. I envisioned the use of my traditional art skills combined with digital technolgy would be the key to my sucess, and the future of fineart in general.
The past few years have been financially challenging, but artistically rewarding. On a positive note, I’m very excited about the new projects that I am creating. I think this body of work might exceed all my expectations, as the best work that I have accomplished to date.
My current energies are focused on exploring the 3D mixed media I call “Shadow Art”, a blending of Traditional art mediums with Digital art.
