My grandfather used to accuse me of wanting to run away and join the circus. By the time I was a teenager the circuses were gone, so I settled for dropping out of high school to work in a tattoo shop. It wasn’t a conventional education, but as Slim Jim Phantom once said "There's nothing they teach in school that you can't learn in a hobo jungle".

At its core, all creative work is about the same thing: taking ideas that are too big, too messy, too —anything— and carving them down into something clear and striking. The guy with the barbed wire tattooed across his forehead needs the same thing that the mustard company down the road does: to show the world who the tangiest really is. I've been helping people tell their stories in a simple visual way for my entire working life, and despite the fact that it may look very different these days, it feels similar.

After twenty five years, I dropped out of tattooing to go to school. I'm currently enrolled in Humber Polytechnic's Multimedia Design and Development program where I'm building a skill set that spans illustration, design, motion graphics, and interactive media. It takes a broad approach to getting your message heard in the today's media landscape and I'm prepared to do whatever it takes.

Although I'm between bands, I still play music when I get the chance and I co-publish a 'zine about the stories tattooers pass around.

I’m a joy to work with. I label my layers and I answer my emails. Shoot me a message and let's get something started.