Painting and drawing has always been one of my strongest passions, and is the source of some of my greatest pleasures, as well as my most frustrating struggles. For me, painting is a means of affording shapes and colors to otherwise elusive human experiences, while at the same time celebrating an awareness of extraordinary aesthetics.
I am extremely interested in the manipulation of shape and color, and the potential for paint to represent both physical forms and the essence of what those forms contain. I am beginning to experiment with combinations of transparency and selective color application, using these techniques to exemplify the fluid, fleeting nature of perception. I generally tend not to concentrate on any specific theme in particular, but rather strive to create works which communicate the sensual nature of experience, as well as the ability of individual moments to strike us with their rich visual properties. For this reason, my paintings often depict a wide variety of subjects in diverse settings, and include everything from figures, to still lifes, to street scenes, to everything inbetween.