Artist Statement

My work alludes to the indeterminate and often restless space between abstraction and figuration, darkness and light, stillness and speed, flat and illusional space. There are historical references, personal ghosts, the rhythmic language of marks in my paintings as well as visible signs of revision and my thought process. Color, a never-ending personal obsession, references luminosity and light, subliminal emotion and the study of the formal properties of arrangements of tones and shades. 

I believe that an artist can have contradictory elements and influences in their work as our environment, experiences and thoughts shape us in a non-linear fashion. My abstract paintings speak about many things -- architecture, art and design of the past, the cycle of birth and death in the garden, beauty, the balance between nature and man, the power of archetypal shapes. 

At their best, my paintings don't speak about anything that can be labeled in language, in search of the deepest place in the subconscious.