I am interested in images that invite the viewer to enjoy the luxury of slow looking.
Paintings that continue to reveal their story and mood over time.
With color harmonies, a graphic sense of composition, and active mark making I create visual stories that share my experience of seeing beauty and mystery in the world around me.
Whether figurative or abstract in context, I use bold flat brush strokes to create form and structure. While delicate almost whimsical line work acts like rebar reinforcing the visual focus.
Solving the puzzle of the rectangle, working equations where X = the rectangle. How do I solve for “X”?
Using line, shape, color, and value I work to refine the image down to only the essential movements. Searching, fighting for that energized balance between the figure and the frame between form and abstraction.
The shape of a door, and a triangular pool of light act as counterpoint to the presence of the figure. A line becomes the gesture of an arm and the edge between light and dark conveys the weight and twist of the torso. Ultimately finding an answer to the equation of the rectangle.
I feel gesture can be far more powerful than detail. Focusing on gesture over detail I embrace the opportunity to create moments of incompleteness. These moments allow the viewer to finish the story. Even the most compelling realism contains gesture and abstraction at its core and just a little bit of mystery for the viewer to solve.
My intention is to be present in the moment of creation and let the expression evolve out of my process and the experience of creation. I think this can be different for each individual work. I am always curious to hear what the viewer feels when they see my work.
My images become visual stories that are a means for talking about the world within me. The visible physical image becomes a metaphor for the ethereal experience of my observations.
Visually solving the world around me is the work I do to find out who I am.