I was born in the USA.My very young years until age 18 I lived in a paradice on the shores of the deepest part of Lake champlain. A virtual paradice with a 900 ft. of some of the world's most famous looking smooth round stones with stories written upon each.I dropped out of high school early in to the 10 th grade.Then attendxed a year at the Montreal Museum school of fine Arts. I attended a couple years at the boston museum school of fine Arts and mostly at ''The School of Visual Arts in New York city''Now I live where I grew up next to the shores of ''Lake Champlain'' of where I paint and etch almost everyday and will never live anywhere esle.