I have created since I was a young child.
I've been seriously studying art since 2007. I attended Youngstown State University (YSU) for four years, where I earned my bachelor's degree in Art Education in 2011. I continued on to teach Art that year, to students aged Kindergarten through seventh grade. While teaching, I returned to YSU to earn my second bachelor's degree in painting. While I was teaching as well as attending school, I began my apprenticeship in the winter of 2013. In the summer of 2015, after I earned my art degree and after my last year of teaching, I began my career as a full time artist; in October of 2020, I opened my own private studio: Tell Tale Tattoos.
Since then, I've worked with numerous other artists for guest spots throughout Northern Ohio, as well as into Michigan. I've had tattoo work and paintings published in worldwide distributed magazines and artworks published in books. Paintings have been acquired by private collectors, as well as the permanent collection of the Poe Museum in Richmond,VA. Clients travel from multiple states to get tattooed, and I've even won an award in an Ohio tattoo contest.
