I was born in Utah, where I grew up surrounded by opportunities to explore art. My father taught at a community college and made it possible for me to attend summer art classes there as a youth. He also arranged private tutoring with college art students, giving me a foundation that deeply shaped my love for creating.

While still in high school, I opened a small screen-printing business, which became my first real venture into producing artwork professionally.

In my twenties, while working as an executive chef, I began to notice a tremor in my hands—something that made detailed, traditional painting increasingly difficult. Though it was discouraging, I redirected my creative energy into ice carving, where I could continue expressing myself artistically.

Years later, during recovery from surgery, I discovered digital painting software. It offered stabilization tools that compensated for my shaky hands and allowed me to return to painting in a way I hadn’t thought possible. That discovery changed everything.

It has long been my desire to share the impressions that come to me when I read the Book of Mormon, my favorite book. I feel incredibly blessed to have found a medium that allows me to create again, and I’m deeply grateful to the developers of the tools that made this journey back to painting possible.