I’ve spent most of my life creating—although for many years, the canvas looked very different.

I graduated from Kutztown University with a BFA in Communication Design and began my career in Manhattan working in package design. It was an exciting introduction to the professional creative world and the beginning of a career centered around color, composition, typography, and the idea that good design should make you feel something.

Not long after, I leaped into entrepreneurship and helped start and run an advertising agency called PHD Advertising Design. I eventually bought out my partner and brought the business back to the disciplines I had always been most passionate about: packaging and design.

That company became ThinkWork Creative.

For decades, I had the opportunity to create, collaborate, solve problems, and build visual ideas for brands and clients. I loved the work, but somewhere along the way I began to feel the pull toward something more personal—creating without a brief, a client, a deadline, or a product to sell.

Painting gave me that freedom.

Abstract art became a completely different way for me to communicate. Instead of beginning with a marketing objective, I could begin with a color, a texture, a movement, an emotion—or sometimes with no plan at all.

In 2026, after selling ThinkWork, I transitioned from a career as a designer and creative director to a full-time abstract acrylic artist.

In many ways, though, I don’t see it as starting over.

The years I spent in design still influence everything I paint. My understanding of composition, balance, contrast, color and negative space is always there. But painting allows me to use those instincts differently. There are fewer rules. There is room for accidents, layers, imperfections and discovery.

After a lifetime of creating for other people, I’m now creating work that is my own.

And I think that may be the most exciting part of the journey.