About the Artist
I have been painting fantastic otherworlds from early childhood, though my art career did not begin until 1998 when I graduated from a program of Computer Science. After three years of programming for a software company by day and rushing home to paint into the midnight hours, I left the world of typed logic and numbers, for painted worlds of dreams and the fae.
My illustrations have been for various game and publishing clients, including Wizards of the Coast, HarperCollins, LUNA Books, Tachyon Books, Alderac Entertainment, and Green Ronin.
In addition to the commissioned projects, I have spent a great deal of time working up a personal body of work whose inspiration stems from mythology, legend, and folklore. I have also been greatly influenced by the art of the Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, Surrealists, and the master hand of Nature. Swirling echoes of sinuous oak branches, watermarked leaf stains, the endless palette of the skies are my signature. my background of over a decade as a flamenco dancer is also evident in the movement and composition of my paintings. Every aspect of my paintings moves in a choreographed flow, and the dancers are not only those with human limbs. What I try to convey with my art is not simply fantasy, but the fantastic, the sense of wonder, that which is sacred.
While most of my work is done with watercolors, I experiment with pen & ink, intaglio printing, acrylic, and digital painting as well.
