As a painter, I act as a witness—attending to the world through my senses and the eye of my heart, then responding through the marks of my hand with a record of particular presence. Every stroke and layer carries the history and immediacy of engagement between artist and subject, spirit and form, material and meaning.
I draw my subjects from experience and memory. Some are figures in motion—physically, psychically, and spiritually—emerging at thresholds, boundaries, and margins. Others are visions of interior spaces where I eliminate the boundary of human form to explore new layers of reality and the relationship between microcosm and macrocosm. Whether figurative or abstract, my work embodies the liminal—the space between states of being.
Using palette knives, my fingers, and occasionally brushes, I build the body of each painting with oil paint, oil stick, wax, graphite, and solvent. I spray, pour, drip, scrape, and sand until the surface is thick and rich, both opaque and transparent—sometimes obscuring or protecting what lies beneath, other times revealing layers of growth. I alternate between building and excavating, inscribing lines and then filling them in, until the work acquires a patina of time, depth, and presence.
My process is meditative, rhythmic, and intuitive. I trust immediate responses and spontaneous mark-making, allowing the work to reveal what wants to emerge or recede. The flesh and gesture of paint on canvas act to embody feeling—the painting becomes heart and spirit incarnated by matter, a body that ponders the mysteries of communication, connection, and transformation.
In attending to particulars and connecting to the universal through paint, I seek to express the spirit and energy in my subject, the world, and myself. Each encounter between viewer and image adds to the conversation, community, and life of the work.