I started to draw long before I started to speak. Expressing myself through the visual arts proved so satisfactory that I was temporarily considered mute. I trained academically since the age of 9 at the National Academy of Design in New York. I continued my training at LaGuardia High School for Visual and Performing Arts (the “Fame” school), specializing in sculpture. My training in traditional animation at the School of Visual Arts enhanced my academic training with a knowledge of film, character, set and prop design, and a completely renewed understanding of movement and gesture.
As an artist I glean a great deal of inspiration from my travels and the places and people I encounter all over the world. Museums are my favorite places to visit wherever I go. Stylistically, I feel the closest affinity with German Expressionism, Art Nouveau and Japanese woodblock prints.
To see more of my work as well as full pitch packages, sample pages, and concept art for my projects-in-progress, visit my Portfolio here:
Napoleon’s Starship
Gavroche travels to space with one goal – to kill Napoleon before he can expand his empire into the stars. A hidden civilization and a shape-shifting monster turn her war-hardened heart from destruction to a battle to save love and beauty on a perishing planet.
Science Fiction, Historical, Graphic Novel
Published by Wayward Raven Media October 2024.
Or drop by my table at a comic con to buy a signed copy in person!
I am currently working on Young Adult historical illustrated novels and graphic novel projects, stories with elements of magical realism, and a WWI narrative for adults. My graphic novel projects, currently in varying stages of development, include the following concepts:
Phantoms of Vendôme
A disfigured American fighter pilot in 1920s Paris stages a surreal theatrical operation to punish the traitors who destroyed his face and identity, and at the same time expose their conspiracy to steal French national treasures and sell them for weapons to start a new world war.
Currently on submission, represented by Kaitlyn Katsoupis of Belcastro Agency.
Pirates of New York
In 1909 New York, four circus performer siblings embark on a mission to save their city from destruction when they discover that their father is a legendary pirate preparing his fleet for a deadly attack.
Currently on submission. Pitch package available.
Knights of the Ruby Hatpin
This graphic novel is a fictionalized biography of the forgotten mother of Gothic fiction, 18th century author Ann Radcliffe. The details of her life are nearly undocumented due to the secluded lifestyle necessitated by her health issues. Ann wrote sensational and tragic tales of women abused and tormented by a brutal patriarchal society.
In this alternative history narrative, she becomes a part of her own blood-curdling narratives while only a young teenager. Her personal strength is tested by the nightmares she witnesses during her reckless adventures. Instead of recoiling and hiding in the safety of her bedroom, she becomes a fighter and protector of those most in need of help. These experiences form the basis of her thrilling and mysterious novels later in life.
Concept Art. Pitch package in development.
Operation Ichtyander
Operation Ichtyander is a Young Adult Sci-Fi graphic novel set in 1909 in an undisclosed location.
At the center of the story is a group of teenage victims of illegal experimentation on humans at the dawn of WWI. German military leaders are attempting to create an underwater marine aviation escadrille to escort their heavy submarine bombers. The “pilots” are created by enhancing human bodies with the organs and DNA of flying fish and are codenamed “Ichtyanders” (Fishmen).
The Ichtyanders escape from their lab and build an underwater village amid shipwrecks on the ocean floor. Their young leader encourages the group to return to the surface and adapt to modern life. The Ichtyanders face numerous challenges as they must design and construct leg braces and crutches to enable them to function on land with their modified bodies. Despite their cunning camouflage, their activities catch the attention of international military forces as well as treasure-hunting gangsters.
Hunted and almost destroyed by their enemies, they find salvation and hope for a new life through Gertie, a young marine biology student. She befriends the leader of the pack and together they fight to prevent the horrors of the upcoming war.
Concept Art. Pitch package in development.
The Great Museum Robbery
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM meets BRAVEHEART – a courageous chess pawn from the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh fights an epic duel with an art burglar.
I’ll continue posting visuals and updates as these projects evolve, so keep watching this space!