Hi, welcome to my website.  I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. I attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. After a long career spent as an Art Director, then Creative Director, and finally Design Director, I have returned to my original artistic passions of painting.

Throughout my life, there have been two things that I have always been obsessed with, history and art. My own journey as an artist began back in the 60s where my earliest memories were watching both of my parents pursue their own love of painting as “weekend artists”. They did this for the entirety of their lives. Even when they were both very old, and in the final years of their lives – their greatest joy was always painting.

Unfortunately, my childhood inclinations diminished as I got older, years went by focusing on what I was told was important … sensible employment.  It wasn’t until many years later that I discovered I had a relative who was a very well-known San Francisco artist, sculptor Ralph Stackpole. He had many close friends who were also famous artists, some lived with him while they stayed in San Francisco, like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

Stackpole had a large studio and courtyard at 716 Montgomery St.  It was here that my father, (cousin to Ralph Stockpole) lived during his teenage years, which no doubt fueled his love to paint. That studio also served as a social center for San Francisco’s Bohemian artist community during the 1930s.  A time of one of the most significant shifts in contemporary art.  This transition, during the "Great Depression," moved their artistic focus from representation to direct social action, reconsidering the role of art in society. Dorthea Lange & husband Maynard Dixon had their studios next door, and the Stackpole and Dixon families were close — both men were members of the infamous Bohemian Club.