I was born in 1981 in Melbourne, Australia.  I spent my childhood years playing videogames and watching cartoons. Games from the early 1990's - the 16-bit console era - had a profound influence on my imagination and still inspire my artwork to this day.  Throughout school all I would do is draw and design creatures and landscapes for my own videogame ideas and worlds.  Now I'm an artist and freelance illustrator and nothing much has changed.  My artwork reflects my desire to dream of impossible and beautiful realities, and the sadness I feel that I will never be able to live in those worlds.