I am a portrait artist, illustrator, and graphic designer from Western Pennsylvania. My art primarily focuses on celebrating the unique qualities of the medium that I'm using. I like my ink art to be scribbly, I like my paintings to show brush strokes, and I like my pastel drawings to have sharp contours. My job is to convince you that my pigment smearings are people, places, things, etc., and that's ridiculous. In my work, I attempt to balance this contradiction appropriately within the context of each particular piece.
Favourite Visual Artist
M. C. Esher
Favourite Movies
Requiem for a Dream, A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, Big Fish
Favourite TV Shows
Chef's Table, Parts Unknown, Triptank, Roast Battle, Rick and Morty
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Behemoth, Royksopp, Misery Index, Gojira, Anaal Nathrakh, Ghost
Favourite Books
Brave New World, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Favourite Writers
Aldous Huxley, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens
Tools of the Trade
oil pastels, oil paint, gel pen
Other Interests
fitness, writing