mostly in Hyannis, Massachusetts, with a brief intermission during his early adolescent years that took him to Vero Beach, Florida; Cologne, New Jersey; Wilmington, North Carolina; and back to Hyannis. He jokingly refers to this brief period as 'Dad's bout with Spacial Attention Deficit Disorder.'
   Eric has always enjoyed drawing, and like most artists in his field has been doing it almost as long as he knew how to walk. It wasn't until High School that he decided to become serious about his art, however, and managed to graduate in 1996 with over half of his credits coming from art classes. This, in a state with no arts-magnate program, and where some schools have had to strip all non-academic offerings due to budget cuts. He was very fortunate to have his school, however, as it's art program ranked 51st in the nation at the time. There he studied Fine Arts for all four years; Cartooning and Animation for 3 years (during which time he created a simple commercial teaser in pencil test format, among other things); and Drawing, Sculpture, and Graphic Design for one year each. In his senior year, he completed an experimental 'Fire Sculpture' as his final work in the Fine Arts program. He still visits his old teachers when he gets the chance.
    Eric's greatest love, artistically, is for storytelling. It is a compulsion that drives him, and if asked can tell a story about every personal piece that he's completed, excepting only the odd idle doodle.
    After taking four years off, working in the technology industry with hopes of attending Art School someday, he got his wish with an acceptance letter from Ringling School of Art and Design, one of the nation's top art schools. There, he majored in Illustration and was featured twice in Ringling's “Best of Ringling” juried exhibition, published in Sarasota Magazine and CMYK, and was awarded a first-of-its-kind internship at The Boston Herald, working in their Editorial Art department.
    During his time at the Boston Herald, Eric studied page design and assisted in the creation of graphics for the monthly community calendar. His biggest and most rewarding work, though, was redesigning the front page weather brief for the paper, and creating 68 new full-color weather icons for the design, to graphically portray the effects of weather in front of well known Bostonian landmarks. These designs were featured on the front page every day for around two years before a new complete redesign of the paper removed the front page weather element entirely in favor of a more Tabloid-stylized approach.
    Other studies at Ringling included pop-culture literature and screen-writing, which he has developed a keen interest in. His short script “Act Now,” involving a chronic insomniac developing an unhealthy fascination with late-night infomercials and becoming somewhat of a mad inventor himself, was lauded with one other and held by the instructor to show to the next year's class. In 2004, Eric was awarded his BFA from Ringling, with a 3.26 grade point average. He continues to have an interest in storytelling, and is working on more complex ideas for the screen in the Science Fiction and Thriller genres in both visuals and writing.
   Eric spent a year in Bloomington, Illinois, about 130 miles southwest of Chicago, working at the The Pantagraph newspaper as a staff illustrator and page designer. During his stay he won two awards from the Illinois Press Association for his illustration work. Despite this, he was unhappy in Bloomington, and moved back to Florida to be closer to his friends and family. He has since found work at the Bradenton Herald, doing page design, infographics, and illustration.