I attended Pratt Institute as a recipient of the “Raw Talent Scholarship.” After graduating, I was recruited by Ralph Lauren to illustrate Ralph Lauren’s fashion concepts in photo realistic color pencil drawings. When I left Ralph Lauren at the age of 25, I was as the youngest director in company history. 

After Ralph Lauren, I started a brand identity and package design company. I led a team that designed brand identities, packaging, and print communications for companies that include; Estée Lauder, Elizabeth Arden, Christian Dior, Fendi, Liz Claiborne, Coach, Cosmair, Revlon, Perry Ellis, Clarins, and Stuart Weitzman. My work took me all over the world. I’ve created brand identities and package design for companies and sports teams in South Korea, Australia, Monaco, Switzerland, China and Canada. I also designed athlete brand identities for Tiger Woods and former heavyweight champions Evander Holyfield and Jon Ruiz. 

In 2004 I relocated to San Francisco to become the creative director for a major online travel website. It didn’t take long for me to fall in love with the city. When I’m not working as a professional creative, I can be found working in my San Francisco Mission district art studio or in various city parks drawing pen and ink illustrations. 

As a fine artist, I am multi-disciplined and enjoy working in a variety of mediums. I tend to be representational in my work but can move from photo-realism to abstract comfortably. I enjoy creating pieces that use bold strong colors combined with high-detail. I like unusual subject matters and enjoy combining unlikely elements into my pieces. For instance, combining my pen and ink illustrations with antique maps. My fashion background continues to be a theme in my work, inspiring me to explore functional and wearable art, as well as illustrations to adorn and enhance walls. 

I tend to express my emotions with vibrant colors and through various muses, like fruit or pigeons. I often use or incorporate up-cycled items.  I soak up plenty walking through the streets of this city! In my art studio I work free spirited, wandering and exploring new mediums.  I play with little pockets of our world, you'll see.  Ciao! Jeremie

My work is representational. Below the surface of this quotidian subject matter, my concerns are with light, color, composition and spatial dynamics as well as the imagery itself. Drawing especially from the figure, is a basis for all my painting regardless of subject matter.

Never really knowing what the painting will look like, I approach the canvas spontaneously, looking to express the flood of stories in my head. I start by making marks of color upon color and line and try to follow along as the work evolves almost on it’s own.

I often feel like a writer in my process of finding the narrative and like to think of each painting as a song or a short story.  I “write” or paint using a visual vocabulary of everyday objects such as tables, chairs, beds, houses, fire, water and animals.

By communicating through these universal symbols and keeping the narrative open, I am inviting you to connect to your own experience.

I am often reluctant to tell my personal story of what inspired the work, as it is just that –inspiration.  I am more interested in the story it evokes.

Intentionally childlike, with bold bright colors, simplicity of form, imagination and directness I seek to capture the innocence and immediacy of the heart and move the viewer to relate intimately.