A Career Built on Making Things For more than 50 years, my career has been about turning ideas into visuals. I’m a professional artist and illustrator with experience across a wide range of traditional and digital media. I’ve worked on everything from illustration and design to sculpture and custom artwork, and I’ve learned that the most important tools I bring to a project are solid skills, creativity, reliability, and the willingness to learn something new when the job calls for it. I love creating something from scratch, but I also really enjoy helping someone who already has an idea and needs an artist to make that idea visible. Sometimes the client knows exactly what they want; sometimes they just know they want something and need help figuring out how to get there. I enjoy both. When I started my career, I was being prepared for what was essentially a traditional art-department desk job. That was 50 years ago, and the creative world has changed considerably since then. The tools have changed, the technology has changed, and the way we work has changed—but the fundamentals of good visual communication haven't. I won't try to impress you with a long list of impressive-sounding words. What I can offer is decades of hands-on experience, a strong work ethic, creative problem-solving, and the confidence that comes from having spent a lifetime making things. And yes, I've been doing this for a very long time. That's not a drawback—it's experience you don't have to teach me.…

GardenStudio

A Career Built on Making Things For more than 50 years, my career has been about turning ideas into visuals. I’m a professional artist and illustrator with experience across a wide range of traditional and digital media. I’ve worked on everything from illustration and design to sculpture and custom artwork, and I’ve learned that the most important tools I bring to a project are solid skills, creativity, reliability, and the willingness to learn something new when the job calls for it. I love creating something from scratch, but I also really enjoy helping someone who already has an idea and needs an artist to make that idea visible. Sometimes the client knows exactly what they want; sometimes they just know they want something and need help figuring out how to get there. I enjoy both. When I started my career, I was being prepared for what was essentially a traditional art-department desk job. That was 50 years ago, and the creative world has changed considerably since then. The tools have changed, the technology has changed, and the way we work has changed—but the fundamentals of good visual communication haven't. I won't try to impress you with a long list of impressive-sounding words. What I can offer is decades of hands-on experience, a strong work ethic, creative problem-solving, and the confidence that comes from having spent a lifetime making things. And yes, I've been doing this for a very long time. That's not a drawback—it's experience you don't have to teach me.…

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A Career Built on Making Things

For more than 50 years, my career has been about turning ideas into visuals.

I’m a professional artist and illustrator with experience across a wide range of traditional and digital media. I’ve worked on everything from illustration and design to sculpture and custom artwork, and I’ve learned that the most important tools I bring to a project are solid skills, creativity, reliability, and the willingness to learn something new when the job calls for it.

I love creating something from scratch, but I also really enjoy helping someone who already has an idea and needs an artist to make that idea visible. Sometimes the client knows exactly what they want; sometimes they just know they want something and need help figuring out how to get there. I enjoy both.

When I started my career, I was being prepared for what was essentially a traditional art-department desk job. That was 50 years ago, and the creative world has changed considerably since then. The tools have changed, the technology has changed, and the way we work has changed—but the fundamentals of good visual communication haven’t.

I won’t try to impress you with a long list of impressive-sounding words. What I can offer is decades of hands-on experience, a strong work ethic, creative problem-solving, and the confidence that comes from having spent a lifetime making things.

And yes, I’ve been doing this for a very long time. That’s not a drawback—it’s experience you don’t have to teach me.

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Language

English
Advanced

Work Experience

Owner operator, freelance artist at GardenStudio
October 4, 2025 - Present
Freelance artist service offering illustration, graphic design, painting, design, sculpting, interior and exterior houses and commercial painting
staff illustrator at Minneapolis Star and Tribune
August 1, 2025 - April 1, 1982
Newspaper illustrations for editorial and human interest stories. Work was done in pen and ink
art director at Llewellyn Publicationa
January 1, 1974 - January 1, 1974
Illustrations and covers for two periodicals and an average of 5 books a year

Education

web design at Art Institute of Pittsburgh
August 1, 2008 - June 1, 2009
computer graphics at St Paul Collage
December 31, 2001 - December 31, 2002
Studio Arts and Illustration at Minneapolis Collage of Art and Design
January 1, 1975 - April 1, 1975

Qualifications

children's books
December 31, 1981 - June 1, 1982
• Johnny Valentine (for Alyson Wonderland): • The Duke Who Outlawed Jellybeans (1991)Received the 1992 National Lambda Award for illustration

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Retail, Transportation & Logistics