As a young painter I lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco where I adopted a west coast sense of graffiti and mural style. I moved to San Francisco in the early nineties and I studied art ( and spray painting) at San Francisco’s Art Institute with Bay Area artist and mentor , Tom Akawie. After a stint as a tagger and doing some “ outdoor renegade mural work” I was disappointed by the lack of permanence and respect for this art form, so I became more interested in the stylistic application of this art form in fine art painting. The way I paint now reflects what I call “the sum of all...more
