Education
Suffolk College School of Art, UK
College of Dupage, Illinois
RIT, Rochester, New York

Experience
Graphic Artist and Designer for ten years at Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting, St Charles, Illinois
Art Director Cambodia Daily Newspaper, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Graphic Designer, Preston Gates and Ellis, Seattle

I have been a graphic designer and illustrator for many years. My early professional experience included ten years with Arthur Anderson/Anderson Consulting at their corporate training headquarters in St. Charles, Illinois. Seeking adventure, I took a job in Cambodia as art director of the Cambodia daily Newspaper in Phnom Penh for18 months before moving to Seattle in 1999. Here I worked at Preston Gates and Ellis as in-house designer. Since 2000 I have free-lanced while developing my skills in digital illustration, something I have always enjoyed since teaching myself to use a beta version of Adobe Illustrator years before.

Style
I love to draw, preferring it to any other medium. I was surprised at how much I enjoy creating images on the computer. It is a challenge to develop a style that uses limited fluidity without appearing stiff and computer like. I enjoy planning images using the layers to add color and detail and also the ease of editing this affords. Recent work has included illustration for two children's books as well as images for a west Seattle shoe store used in advertising in Seattle Magazine, Seattle Sound, and Seattle Woman etc.