artist statement

Every Painting I make has to be a new experience. Through different compositions I have set up, new challenges present themselves. I enjoy challenging myself in these new and interesting ways. Painting new surfaces or light sources gives me an opportunity to work the paint in different ways, to discover different ways to approach and to look at a problem.

I want to make the best painting I can. Each painting is a record of my limitations at the time of execution. While my paintings are ultimately representational, it’s explorations of the pure elements of art that I’m interested in. The challenges of painting from life are just how I am able to transcribe the paint surface into those elements.

What I think the viewer will see in these paintings is the duality of the surface.  On one hand a flat object with lush colors painted on it, forming a reality that is somehow familiar.