Born (1965) in Columbia SC - Lived in many surrounding states over the years. Had very early interest in art since preschool. Always drawing and sketching action cartoons. The first student (4th grade) to draw something huge for the school's bulletin board. Also won an art contest or two in grade school. In high school did a lot of custom jacket painting of people's favorite bands and images. Always drawing in class due to boredom.
After graduating high school, a few years later, enrolled in the Greenville Technical College's Communications Art & Technology course. The intention was a career in design for advertising. However being a paste-up artist wasn't the plan. Many of the related courses in that program were:
Elements of Design, Photography, Art History, Drawing and others.
Created the Logo for The Dept of Animal Resource, part of the Columbia SC College.
Has worked with pen & inks, acrylics, oil painting, water colors, charcoal, air brushing, tattooing, sculpting and currently working mostly in 3D art (dolls). Other non artist materials are sought out for some of the projects.
These creations have sold World Wide. This work is taken very seriously.
In 2008, Three or Four dolls were submitted to the International Doll and Bear Show in Washington DC to be shown and possibly sold. VERY Tough crowd to please but one sold.
Also in 2008 attended The 1st Scarefest convention in Lexington KY where Tom Savini (widely known for many horror related film projects/special effects) purchased one of the dolls. Being a fan of his work, this was a PROUD moment. (There were thoughts about going into latex mask making in the past. Settled for small time home concoctions of creepy stuff. The temptation to get involved with Masks is still there today.)
The people from Big Biting Pig Productions were also at the Scarefest that year. They latter asked about having a doll created for their movie to be released in 2011, The Creepy Doll. The conventions are great because of the people. The fans of the dolls makes the work so rewarding.
2010's Scarefest Convention was 3rd time there. One of the Zombie Boys was purchased by George Romero's assistant and sat with George all weekend. He also dropped by the table and that was beyond words.
The Lovely and Talented Miss Nat
from the UK
(Blue Dawn Creations)
The Creator of Many of the Special order Custom Outfits from the earlier dolls