I was born in Mexico City.  My childhood was spent at my father’s ranch in northern Mexico.  At the ranch, my mother home schooled me for four years.  During that course I was introduced to classical art.

We moved to the city of Chihuahua.  In middle school there was a classmate that could make incredible drawings with just a fountain pen, a very common writing tool at the time.  I was so inspired by his drawings that I started doodling on my own.

After seeing my interest in art, my mother, a native New Yorker, enrolled me in The Washington School of Art mail course.

When it came time to choose a career I wanted to go to art school but my father objected.  He believed that you could not make a living as an artist so I choose architecture instead and studied in the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City.

I began doing illustrations for my schoolmates and later for my teachers and then for architectural firms.  All along I continued to paint.

Mexico did not offer a market for figurative art; Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tamayo, Siqueiros, Orozco, and others were the icons of art.

In 1983 I came to the USA and have been doing illustrations and painting since.