ARTIST STATEMENT

Whether painting landscapes, miniature toys or depictions of suburbia, I believe all pictures have various levels of meaning.

I am most interested in finding the serene, the whimsical and the uncanny in the space between the real and the unreal. I like to think of my paintings as Giotto meets Vermeer on the way to David Lynch's house.

The painting techniques that I employ are largely 17th and 18th century indirect techniques, but with acrylic paint. I can do thousands of glazes a day which gives the work a unique luminosity and as a result becomes jewel like.