Thanks to my parents who often took me traveling with them, I developed a strong interest for foreign cultures at a fairly young age. At 8 years old, I traveled to North Africa for the first time. This is where I learned to paint on silk and when I started to explore with pigments, fabrics, and vibrant colors and continued to do so over the next 10 years or so. To this day, silk painting and traveling continue to be a great source of inspiration that transpires through my art both directly and indirectly.

My budding "art career" came to a full stop at the end of puberty as I started studying physics and business, then moved to California where I found a couple of rather serious marketing and graphic design jobs. I still traveled, but I gave up art completely… After 10 years of total abstinence I was ready to muster all the creative energy that had built up in me, and finally made the change that brought me back to art. It is only two years ago, after earning my master's of architecture at UC Berkeley, that I decided to dedicate myself to painting again.

My formal training in art consists in basic painting, color theory, and visual-studies classes taken at Laney College, the University of Washington, and UC Berkeley over the last 8 years or so. In the last few semesters, I have also developed an interest in ceramics and print-making which I currently practice at Laney College.

At this stage in my painting career, my work is joyfully eclectic and quite exploratory in nature. I purposely give myself a lot of freedom in these explorations to unlearn some of the constricting concepts I have somehow collected along the way and to allow my formerly tamed imagination to run wild again.