After graduating from the University of Montana, Missoula with a B.A. in Psychology, he decided to pursue his childhood passion of art. He studied portrait and figure drawing at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy and continued his studies at Angela Cunningham's Fine Art Studio in North Carolina. While primarily a self taught painter, his technical training in traditional drawing techniques informs his current body of work. Today Kadin almost exclusively paints "en plein air" and enjoys reading, playing guitar and hiking. Read Less