Artist’s Statement
I create artwork in oil, ink, and acrylic that reflect my vision of the internal world interacting with the external.
“My paintings are meant to be felt with the eyes, seen with the heart, and touched by the soul.”
These paintings often are meditations on nature and spiritual reflections interpreted through vibrant, high contrasting, colors and organic shapes in order to evoke a reaction and internal dialog.
Summer’s New Moon
Creating My Work
Many of my works start in my dreams: Imaginings that cannot be explained in words. Sometimes it is hard to remember the dream. But I have found that my hands have not forgotten the dream; the hands carry it forward. These paintings also seem to appear very quickly on the canvas. It is as if, I enter a state where my mind speaks to my hands without going through my consciousness. At times there seems to be a connecting ‘theme’ or thread through several paintings. I have found that these paintings must be forged from within and not be controlled. Painted until the entire concept of several visions is developed and born.
“The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins in the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invitation and confrontation.”
~ Keith Haring (1958-1990)