I’m a freelance illustrator by trade for 25+ years, having created award-winning illustrations for magazines, books, ad campaigns, and non-profits worldwide, and also an intermittent art & design instructor who is increasingly looking for long-term teaching commitments.

I love to be around children and I am passionate about observing and stimulating their learning experience and development whenever possible. Helping unlock and inspire children’s imagination and creativity, and even more so, being able to participate in their idea-finding journey and artistic evolution, I find are immensely gratifying processes. It is also very rewarding to me to return some of the exposure I am thankful to have accumulated from the continual professional arts training at the core of my career as an illustrator and designer, which allows me to provide a few degrees of a real world background to my students when developing their skills, along with solid knowledge of a variety of techniques and art historical fun facts and episodes.

My teaching experience has evolved into a compelling and deeply satisfying task, and I have become more and more interested in expanding my teaching practice and capabilities long term in the future. I have been experiencing teaching as a dynamic, profound two-way process, and I always give my heart and absolute best when doing my part. Additionally, I have worked with children of multi-ethnic backgrounds and language proficiencies as well as with pupils struggling with various learning disabilities which always present wonderful opportunities to truly help those students with maximum empathy and individually adjusted teaching methods to create a happily inclusive classroom.