"I love to push paint around and I think the transition came the day the twin towers in New York City came crashing down. Like most everyone, 9/11 changed the way I viewed the world … taking me down a path I could have never imagined. I became a different person.  For most of my life, I have been in radio but on that day — after working around the clock broadcasting news feeds from New York — I was exhausted. It was extremely painful and numbing to talk about these tragedies for hours and seeing the rubble of broken lives.”

“Tired and confused, I walked out the door of the studio and into a local art store, where I bought canvases, tubes of oil paint and brushes of all sizes. I had never painted a stroke in my life. The closest I had ever come to creating any art was my incessant doodling on cocktail napkins and scrap paper. However, I was so affected by that day and its events, I have since dedicated myself to painting every day.”

“My first piece was an oil painting that’s still in my possession … a small 5”x 6” painting of a clump of trees. Then, I painted fish swimming along the coastline … why? I have no idea.”

“For me,  painting is like a portal, a way out of my skin, to get off this planet and away from humans. When I paint, I’m free!”