I received my Associates in Visual Communications (graphic design/advertising) in fall 1989 from the Art Institute of Seattle. It was during this time I was experimenting in freelance painting for family and friends in a wide variety of themes, flowers, figurative, landscapes, graphic posters and fashion style imagery. It was here were I met my wife who graduated a year earlier in Fashion Merchandising, which added more fuel to my already strong interest and curiosity to this field.

Having a hard time of landing any actual steady work in the Graphic design area, despite having an excellent portfolio at the time - I was lacking the necessary ingredient “experience”. Becoming more frustrated over the next few years I turned back to what always gave me a great feeling of accomplishment, pay and response. Being only 21 and trying to take a dive into the fine art world without really knowing anything was huge task. Using mainly my youth and energetic energy along with my Asian/graphic abstract paintings in hand, I went out to hit the Seattle scene. After a taste of a little bit of success and showing for about 3 years in small salon/art galleries, cafes, restaurants, offices, etc. The demands of real life came on fast. Now married with rent and bills to pay I needed a real steady income, taking on work in 92 at a Web printing factory and in 93 as Sign maker/designer job. With my wife becoming pregnant and daughter soon coming in 1995 I found myself working at Baden Sports Inc. in there graphic/production/marketing dept., which is my current full time job today. Trying to juggle being a responsible husband, father, family life and work, with no extra time to spare, my real love for painting natural took a big dry spell. Through 98-2001 I was virtually not painting at all.

With my daughter and life become a lot more balance and work becoming less stressful, I was finding time to slowly get back into my paintings. Having done abstracts for quite sometime now, I thought it was time for a new change and revisit my old passion of fashion imagery, armed with God’s faith, my wife’s support, more money, the Internet world, past/new experience, solid research, and a strong network of family, friends and new business acquaintance as well. By 2004 I was working on a style in which I was comfortable with and by the end of year through 2005 I found it and was fully emerged into my current body of work. I now found myself, thanks to Art/Not Terminal Galley back in the world I missed, in my first solo art show in nearly 14 years. I want to truly thank everyone for their support.