Artist Statement

I approach my work using a variety of different processes, starting points and materials. I see oils, acrylics, paper, canvas, pencils, charcoal, the camera and a host of objects around me in the studio not as single function tools but more as a collective and often random means of developing the visual story I'm trying to tell.

My visual preferences for colors, textures and individual shapes are based almost entirely on how well I imagine they might work together in a larger piece to create not simply the sum of its parts but a work that finds a voice of its own. Where they are eventually placed and how they interact with each other is guided in part, by knowing they have their own internal narrative and ultimately want to occupy some position or space because of it. 

I love a big blue open sky, the bold and pushy shapes of buildings, the chaos of anything with no obvious order, random collisions of color, beautiful and curious faces, tiny things that whisper in my garden... and I am continually fascinated by how the world entirely on its own, is painting an endless number of compositions around me everyday.