I began drawing as soon as I could hold a pencil. My brothers and I drew anything and everything that piqued our interest. Early on we used the Jon Gnagy Learn to Draw Art Kit, later, I took art in high school, and then on to commercial art school upon graduation.

After art school, music became my main focus as my rock-n-roll band traveled the east coast playing bars, clubs and frat houses. After a number of years on the road, I was between bands and an artist, book publisher and entrepanuer friend of mine asked me and a number of other people to move up to Rugby Tennessee where he was living and working. We moved into one of the historic homes there that he was renting, The Wren's Nest, and began a small communal scene whereupon I met my wife to be, and then as a group we decided to move to The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee to join forces with like-minded folks.

I immediately plugged into the farming crew as most new members did until such time as I was drafted to the art department of The Farm's Book Publishing Company to help illustrate their latest book project, Spiritual Midwifery. When this big push was complete, I moved downstairs to the printshop and began apprenticing as a pressman plus learning the whole prepress procedure necessary in getting a project from beginning to end, it included typesetting, darkroom, stripping, platemaking, printing, folding, binding, trimming and shipping.

The Farm commune got into financial difficulty, declared bankruptcy, became a collective making everyone responsible for earning their own keep. The county we were in, being a depressed area, precipitated a mass exodus from The Farm. My family moved to Nashville and I began my career in state government as art director in the newly formed Graphic Arts section of Media Production Services/General Services which included photography, graphic design and video production.

During my 7th year with the state, I was offered a position with a family-owned ad agency which I accepted for monetary reasons. During my 4 years there, the work schedule was very intense requiring a lot of computer generated illustrations, ads, posters, etc., using various software programs which sharply increased my skill level in those programs and overall.

We lost a big account, I was let go, and coincidentally, a graphic designer I position opened in the Graphic Arts section of State Printing. I applied and got the job which began another fast paced, labor intensive period increasing my computer skills level to an even higher degree.

I was recently promoted a to graphic designer II/supervisor position which brings this bio up to the present tense but not the end of the story...