Background

Prior to dabbling in picture books, I spent six years working for Walt Disney Studios in Sydney with a group of talented artist on sequels to The Lion King, Peter Pan Return to Neverland, Lady and the Tramp and Jungle Book. Disney offered an intense 3-month training period as an entry level In-betweener and is where I gained most of my skills. Unfortunately the doors closed in 2006 but many of the artists continued animation in studios like Dave Enterprises, Flying Bark and Animal Logic.
Working for Disney has been one of the highlights in my career and definitely was a contributor when it came to illustrating for picture books.

I studied a short course at CCE in Sydney, run by Donna Rawlins and Wayne Harris in 2009 which taught the process of illustrating a picture book. Sharing their knowledge and industry requirements this amazing course attributed to my first official offer months later.

Jump forward from 2009 to 2022 where my publisher approached me about writing and illustrating a graphic novel. As a reluctant reader myself growing up, my brothers comic book collection was my ideal reading material of choice. Filled with colourful pages and little writing, I found myself getting lost in the world of the protagonist. This lead to me becoming a visual story teller capturing my stories through images. I hope to inspire young boys and girls to follow their creative passion be it by reading, wirting or by visually sharing their stories.