I began drawing as soon as I could hold a pencil. My brothers and I drew anything and everything that piqued our interest. We especially loved all of our favorite cartoon characters and could draw them from memory such as the Flintstones and of course Mickey Mouse. I began using the Jon Gnagy Learn to Draw Art Kit, later, I took art in high school, and then on to commercial art school upon graduation from high school.

I left art school after one year to pursue music as our 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 all moved into one of the historic homes there that he was renting, The Wren's Nest, and began a small communal living scene similar The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. One of the folks that moved to Rugby was Eleanor from VA and she and I began a relationship and had Stephen marry us at a Sunday Service before moving there which we did later. We had visited a few smaller Farm affiliated communities and liked how they operated so in August of 1975 we moved to The Farm and began our 12 year Farm experience.

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 community making everyone responsible for earning their own keep. The county we were in, being a depressed area, which precipitated a mass exodus from The Farm. I was fortunate to be working at The Book Company as they were able to start paying a wage. Later, our family ended up moving to Nashville in 1987 and I began a 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. I retired from the state in 2016 after 25 years and began retirement but also working from home freelancing.