About Me

I spent my time growing up in Central Florida barefoot and alone exploring the woods and water. Sent to school for the first time when I was six (Catholic school no less!)  I soon learned the nuns neither appreciated nor tolerated rule breakers and weirdos. Much later I moved to Tallahassee for college I started meeting other creatives, which led me to N.Y.C. and the punk scene. During the years I worked a myriad of jobs, sold everything from bras to boa constrictors, waited tables, became a chef, worked at a fish farm, learned floral design, got a real estate license, you name it. A friend introduced me to folk art in the eighties, and that's when I realized there are many different kinds of art. Years later, back in Southwest Florida, I read a newspaper article about Florida folk artists and I became obsessed, reading everything I could find. In 2009 I went on a couple of road trips and was able to meet Ruby Williams and Kurt Zimmerman. A few months after that I started painting on scraps of wood. I remember my friend telling me at twenty-one that I was an artist and it took me forty years to do it. Thanks, Rod!