I am a visual artist and recent graduate of the Gnomon School of VFX, Games, and Animation. I grew up in a small sleepy town in New Jersey, and spent a lot of my childhood exploring the woods and finding beauty in the peace of nature. After high school, I wanted to pursue art and visual storytelling in any way I could. This led me to the Art Academy in Hillsborough, New Jersey, where I studied traditional oil painting under professional illustrator Kevin Murphy in a year-long mentorship program.

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I studied classical portraiture and illustration in oil paints and charcoal drawings, and found that I enjoyed making pieces which captured moments of emotion the most. The look in a dog's eyes when it's reunited with its owner, or the moment of fiery tension that is sparked when a blade is drawn. I wanted to chase those feelings and pin them down, in whatever medium I could. Meanwhile, I pursued an Associate's Degree in Fine Arts from Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey, where I became more familiar with other digital and traditional mediums such as pastels and colored pencils.

After graduating, I embarked on a journey to find a way that I could continue creating artwork that captured those moments of high emotion and storytelling, and it led me to the world of animation, games, and cinema. I transferred to Gnomon with the ambition of learning as much as I could, so that hopefully I could use a digital medium to tell fantastical stories to people all over the world.