I've been playing guitar since the eighties. I spent a few years in Seattle in the early-mid nineties, immersing my self in the arts scene there. While out West, I added hand drumming and visual arts to my modes of expression. At that time it was mostly colored pencil explorations of conceptual mindscapes. I was able to spend the better part of a summer living in the Redwood forests of Oregon. I had something of a religious conversion experience at a Grateful Dead show, which sent me on a 15 year exploration of various Christian churches in America.