Self taught Artist. I always liked to sketch, invent and build what I invent. In high school I became fascinated with portrait sketching which merged into pastel then oil portraits, murals and sign work. I lived in Michigan and my parents moved to the west coast where my mother had an experimental heart valve put in and elected to stay out there and my father worked on the new plant in Everett, WA where they built the 747 Jumbo jet. I moved from Michigan to work at that plant as a Technical Illustrator and we were supposed to then set up work on the SST, but the government considered the project an environmental danger and scuttled the job that would have kept us busy for 15 years. 50,000 of us laid off. I set up portrait studios in department stores to make ends meet, then applied and was accepted to paint portraits at the Expo 74 Worlds Fair in Spokane. After the fair I moved to Texas where I worked with the Gallery Barbizon in Houston restoring old masters and european masterpieces, then started painting portraits at the Northwest Mall at a kiosk and painted at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for about 10 years. I moved to Lake Livingston hoping to start a portrait studio near the Lake, which I did in 1984, but it didn't work out due to the economy, so I started making signs and created designs for a silk screen shop 20 years who supplied signage for Super Market Chains (Kroger, Brookshire Brothers, Tom Thumb, Randalls and more in Texas between Houston and Dallas. I still do signs and portraits but I no longer chase the big shows.