Me, Myself and Eye

"I am an illustrator and graphic designer." 
I love to make cool album covers like the rock albums I grew up listening to. 
 

It was when I realized that the British art design group Hipgnosis was responsible for a lion's share of my music collection that I began my work. I studied band logos until I could draw them on my schoolmates' book covers in my sleep. I recreated large-scale pencil drawings of my records and wallpapered my room with my artwork. 
 

I sold my artwork to my friends so I could buy more records to draw. Forty years later, nothing has really changed. I like that.
 

"I am a musician." 
I can call myself this, or a rock-n-roll never-was; it depends on how I look at it. 
I have performed and recorded for Polygram Records nationally. 
I have written songs for Paramount's Famous Music Publishing for several international artists.

Music and art go hand in hand.

As a musician, I am simply painting the air with sound.
 
"I am an artist." 
I am an artist with a passion to learn. 

I create because I have to. 


I consume art.   And without it? 
I consume myself.
 
"I am a recluse and a dreamer."
I have a Doberman Pinscher named Psycho.


I have a big tomcat named Steve Earle.
 I dig cats. Big time.


My life's goal is to buy a piece of property in South America with a barn near a sandy beach. A quiet piece of land to vanish, paint, write and build a cat farm to live in solitude completely away from Everybody.
A modest place where all cats will be welcomed and revered.
Ultimately, this is where your money is going when you hire me as your artist.
Everybody needs a dream.
 The best advice I can give?


Dream your life.
 Then live your dream.
 I'm still working on mine.
 

Much L©√∑.
-j.