I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1962 and began drawing and painting as a child. In 1980, I moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts. I graduated in 1985 with my BFA in Illustration. I worked as a commercial illustrator until 1989, when I gave up commercial art and moved upstate to Woodstock, New York, to pursue being a fine artist.
I began using my paintings in performance, with others doing poetry and music.
In 1992, I went on to get my Masters in Fine Arts in Integrated Electronic Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY.
In 1996, I began painting in oils with mixed media on canvas. I painted on large canvases until 2001, when I began to travel and in a desire to record my experience,
I switched to smaller drawings with colored pencil, & photographic collage, on board. In 2004, I began to expand on the theme of this photo collage to bring several images to multiple canvases with oil. Soonafter, I began to frame my own pieces and to explore wood and masonite as a substrate. In 2007, I began working on salvaged wood with oil and photographic collage, utilizing the happenstance textures of these materials. In 2008, I began experimenting with inserting my abstract photos into well-known shapes of Byzantine Icons, Spiritual Figures, and Sacred Geometry.