After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.