I became passionate about art making from a very early age. A place of refuge and contemplation that encouraged me to turn over ideas in visual ways allowing for a sense of intuitive integration and learning. A mix of meditation and exploration, my work is infused with spiritual and philosophical inquiry. Asking questions has always been a primary driver in my life, and various contemplative traditions have been parallel and complementary with my artistic process. I graduated from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco in 2002 with a degree in illustration and have worked on a variety of illustration and design projects. I truly love the collaborative process of illustration work.

In 2008 I began a career in Tattooing which led me to drop representational figurative painting in pursuit of a medium in which I could express deeper, felt experiences. Tattooing allowed me the unique capacity to ‘converse with the canvas’ and have actual dialogue with my work. A reflective dialogue which would end when my work/client got up and walked out the door. It showed me a necessity to converse with the human experience, let go of the work, and see that my integrity as an artist could be carried with it. This illuminated my needs for better communication skills, radical honesty, empathy and symbolic and historical knowledge, plunging me deeper into meditation, sacred painting, language, culture and art history.

The last twelve years of study has taken me deep within and exposed me to the spirituality of my art making process and from it I have learned to look honestly at myself and use my art process as a reflective tool for the integration of experience. My exploration over the last 30 years into non-dual traditions such as Advaita Vedanta, Tantric Shaivism, and Dzogchen has widened my understanding of art as inquiry and allowed me to explore deeper dimensions of experience. By dissolving the duality’s of subject/object I began to discover that the creative practice of art making is truly a process of healing and becoming whole. Each piece is an artifact of a process of self discovery that peels away another layer of separation, a process of liberation that truly never ends.