About
Every Storyteller begins with a spark. Mine started in the rural woods and waters of Long Island, where lakes like Lower Yaphank Lake held mysteries and critters that would linger just out of reach.
I tried to catch those stories, first in drawing, then in stories.
Art came early for me. As a youth, I learned to mix colors by eye along side my father, a master of glazing and woodgraining. Something that I would not fully process until working in watercolor medium many years later. As I got older, I followed my father’s trade working in Manhattan where my I was exposed to the wonders of Architecture.
Later, I went on to study architecture, but found my way into land surveying, where I spent my days measuring and sketching the world. A perfect fusion of mathematics and art.
For a time, my stories waited.
Then in my late twenties, I stumbled into fantasy fiction and remembered how much I loved getting lost in a good tale. Years later, during the dry years around 2020, I picked up watercolor painting again. Not long after, my kids Jonah and Hannah, started telling their own stories with art. I decided to “try” to keep up.
In 2022, I made a simple bedtime book for my daughter. That small 8-page illustrated board book opened a much bigger door in my life.
Now I write and illustrate picture books filled with the very heart and humor that sparked my imagination. The kind of stories that invite kids to start their own journeys.
And if I do my job right, they find that spark at the end of the final page.