Born in Venezuela, South America and Resides with his family in Medicine Hat, Alberta

There is nothing like going to a live sport event. The excitement of the crowd and the drama of the players is a wonderful sideline to my creative inspiration.  As I watch sports from a television’s point of view, I can only tell you who scored, who won, and very little on what the crowd was doing. The real excitement comes from actually being there. Observing the players as they demonstrate their talents and then listening to the reaction of the crowd as they cheer on their super stars.  The cheering, booing, clapping, flag waving and the hackling are all elements of any game and therefore are my rendering interpretation.

Throughout the years I have created different characters that I incorporate into the crowd of most of my paintings. One sample is the cheering character, the person who has his hands to his face yelling. The other one is the thunder stick person. But I believe the one I really like is the guy that I seen during an intermission break at a Calgary Flames game. He was walking towards me wearing his costume. A red afro wig, a black Zorro mask, his face painted red, a Flames jersey, black gym shorts, red leotards and white runners. Oh yeah he was also wearing a red cape and waving a Flames flag. That's just priceless... These are just a few.

With the main character it's pretty simple. I’m always looking for a certain pose or a distinguish look of that player. An example of this would be Ken Dryden’s standing and resting his hands on top of his goalie stick. That pose is his character pose. People associate Dryden to that pose. In my world, I would have to say the Theo Fleury painting, that stance is viewed as one of his signature stance. The passionate look just before a face off has to be one of my favourites pose. I had the thrill to watch him play so many times and after painting his portrait the opportunity to finally meet him. This is what that stance means to me.

 I have been fortunate enough to be able to take my own photographs at sport events in the past few years. Whether it is hockey, soccer or baseball I’m always fascinated by the action, the emotions of the players, and the cheering crowd. The photographs themselves portray the talent of these sport minded individuals. It is these individual frames in time and a moment in their lives that I wish to capture in a drawing or a painting. To render that pose forever....

In this 2001 picture I'm the skinny guy in the middle. On the left is Jay Bouwmeester when he played for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League. Now for Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League.On the right is Bernie Leahy, Sutton Group, Medicine Hat, who promoted the painting and printing of " Bouwmeester # 4 "

This is a 1996 picture of Theo Fleury and myself after spending 5 hours of signing prints. There was 314 prints and 14 Artist Proofs signed. Sold Out " Theo 14 "

Commissioned and Private Collections include
Sandy MaCarthy, Teemu Selanne, Billy Smith, Bill Ranford, Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Esa Tekkinen, Theo Fleury, Trevor Kidd, Foster Hewett, Ken Dryden, Tony Esposito, Annti Alltto, Kam Neely, Kris Russell, Matt Keetley, Kevin Nastiuk, Mark Messier, Jay Bouwmeester, Joffrey Lupul, Ryan Hollweg and Chris St.Jaque, Miikka Kiprusoff, Jarome Iginla, Dion Phanuef, Curtis Joseph, Paul Henderson, Brayden McNabb and Steve Yzerman.

This picture of Trevor and me was taken by my best friend Mike Laux. In the story The Kidd and me, This is the part where I stood on Trevor's pinky toe while the shot was taken.	This is the after shot...Not a good thing to do to someone who is very superstitious. You'll have to go to Blog with Alberta Sport Artist Joe Versikaitis to read The Kidd and me

Corporate Works & Commissions include

• Medicine Hat Tigers - WHL

• Brooks Bandits - AJHL

• City of Brooks, Alberta

• Medicine Hat College

• World Gym

• Calgary Flames