ARTIST STATEMENT

I'm really not one to put things in a neat little box and label them, but for a quick explanation of my total body of work to date I'll try to do so. Basically, I have developed, over a decade, two starting approaches to painting.  One is based off photographic reference and preliminary studies, the other is completely free of photo reference and relies on adaptation and improvisation. In other words, starting a painting with a plan or without one.  Not all my work is completely one or the other. Sometimes I begin with one approach and complete the painting with the other.

Light blue hues, cotton filled clouds, the whisper of a moment.

The spirit the earth makes after the sun rests.

Simple shapes revealing complex thoughts.

Complex thoughts revealing simple joys.

The distant sound of thunder rolling through a strand of ultramarine curtains.

A million more shades of green yet to be heard from.

The familiar scent of a humid, summer, morning in a wood's break.

Reminiscing about lands not discovered, making ones that eventually dissolve.

The warmth of the sun and sounds that only leaves and birds make.

The forgettably unforgettable, never to be seen again.

Always there.