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Artist Statement

Our lives are rich in layers and texture. With all of my work, either sculpture or painting, I strive to create works that are visually and symbolically layered. Similar to a book, with its many pages, I believe works of art have their own pages; visually written in a way that allows the viewer to continually see new things, each day.

"Providing reflections of who we are - deep within our core - is to me the process of creating something beautiful and sacred."

In my process of creating, I spend a great deal of time reading, looking at images in nature, countless rough drawings and pages of notes. If it's figurative work I'm doing, then I study in detail all of the changing shapes in the pose I'm preparing to do. I put sketches, photos and written words up all around my studio. I immerse myself in the process. When I feel completely connected to the direction I want to go, I tear down all of my images and make my space clean and open; then I am in a space where I feel that I am just standing still and watching something wonderful happen. Often, when I go to the studio the next day, I don't know how such a beautiful thing was created. I just stand there in honor of the great presence I feel standing beside me.

 

Recent Works

In my recent works, I strive to minimize my own input and rely on divine points of connection. Working more as a facilitator enables me to create works that transcend my own abilities.

This process allows me to unfold energetic paintings that are emotively layered. Beyond the main images in my paintings are sub-images of vessels, guides, gateways and weavings of lines that connect us to our own inner core.

Sometimes works of art are best described by those who make connections with the paintings. One of my collectors wrote the following:

"...it was your recognition of the undefinable, "spiritual" source from which your work comes."

Beyond creating works of balanced color and composition, I believe a painting can create a connection with the viewer that allows them to find connections to the core of who they are - the Essence of their Being.