I studied studio art at Tulane University (Newcomb College) in New Orleans, the College of DuPage, and Loyola University, Chicago. I graduated with both a B.A. in Sociology and B.S. in Anthropolgy with a minor in Art from Loyola University, Chicago. In 1996, before beginning graduate school, I took a position with Clear Channel Entertainment - Motor Sports (then PACE Entertainment).

The company offered me the opportunity to develop their internet department. I never made it to graduate school in 1997. Through my work as a website designer and an online journalist my interest in photojournalism grew. My position allows me to travel extensively through the United States. Working with top sports photographers like Frank Hoppen and Steve Bruhn fueled my passion for photography. Although I had been taking photos since I was 13, I had never considered photography an art until working with professionals. With some encouragement I began taking photos again, for some purpose other that to preserve and image that would later become a drawing or painting. After beginning my career my passion for art never faltered, but for the first time since my early childhood my patience for my own skill ran short. After a few years I had all but given up painting.

In 2003 a trip to Italy inspired me to begin painting and drawing again. I hope you enjoy what you see. If I have taken you out of your life for a moment and made you stop and look twice; then I have done what I set out to do.