I'm a painter, illustrator, interactive designer, and web developer living in sunny Orlando, FL

I liked to draw from a young age and all that.. (copying Freddy from Fangoria, and much superhero stuff).
I'm still looking for my place in the monumental history of it all. I gratiously salute a pantheon of heroes from magazines to the museums.

My Pops brought home a Mac LC  when I was quite little, and subsequently keept me up with later generations of Apple computers. Don't worry, I like PC's too, but I grew up on Mac and vividly remember being stunned by MacPaint + a trackball well before Windows filtered out into the masses. This led to an amateur carreer in tech support. But my real interest was always messing around in Photoshop and such.

I am an eager futurist and will go on about digital potentialities. Yet I cannot shrug physical media. The sensuality of the pigments and mediums hypnotizes. 
Painting demands process and rewards with unique form. So I play the diligant modernist painter, mining for untold expressive potential in "colored mud".

My college didn't have much of an art program, and no computer program. I studied math mostly, but was restless and left early, just wanting to paint better and make it work.
I lived in Boston and NYC for a number of years, enjoying the hotbed of creative energy and creative industry; and the city as it's own sexy beast.

Some years back I wanted to publish my work on the web, but found my ideas severely frustrated by the WYSIWYG tools available at the time. I decided I wanted to get my eyes dirty with code and get under the hood to see what things I could make happen. To take on a new medum, this web.

I find it expansive and protean and integral of most other mediums. People struggle to define web 2.0 and beyond. It's come so far from the static graphic design that was THE model for so many generations. My digital explorations have radically informed my notions of visual design, even as I continue to paint oils on canvas. Web design demands programming, in addition to classical compositional skills. The canvas that moves and talks back breaks old paridigms.

I happily help clients with the chops I've developed.  They present and communicate thier stuff. I continue to mine for context and expressive potential. The web itself is still a baby. Many ideas are still nascent. It is all very challenging and exiting. 

There is always more than enough to learn. New standards develop pretty rapidly. I plan on being up on tomorrow's. I desire to be a new master. To craft processes and styles that resonate in this new media; but also also maybe tap into the resonance of the old media, and the old masters

-Ryan