As a boy, I loved keeping track of license plates. There were no cell phones, iPads, on-board DVD players, or podcasts. Long road trips were kept entertaining by keeping a tallied list of all the diverse plates I saw on the road along the way.

Family vacations to over forty states and several Canadian provinces exposed me to the wealth of color, style and personality of each state's tag. But, I never could have envisioned turning that fascination into a successful evolving art career. It all started in a small, sweaty corner of my old garage one summer evening...