Artist Statement

My creative work encompasses painting and drawing as well as coin and medal design. I am interested in paintings that whisper, rather than yell: that speak of liminal spaces and deep, quiet observation. I have always been intensely interested in people, their likenesses, their experiences, and the attempt to capture and distill their essence. My work is informed by Depth Psychology, and Archetypes are constantly at play in my art. I search for the underlying structure that speaks to human nature across many cultures and countless eras. In this day and age of constantly being confronted with a multiplicity of flickering images, what a profound experience it is to truly see and be seen. Within my work, I try to embody a felt experience that can be communicated to others. I attempt to encounter the visual world in a way that is informed by thousands of years of the creation of art objects and yet, at the same time, is somehow fresh.

"The contemplation of veritable works of art, and much more still that of the beauty of the world, and again much more that of the unrealized good to which we aspire, can sustain us in our efforts to think continually about that human order which should be the subject uppermost in our minds….By looking at the world…we shall find a more powerful encouragement in the thought of how these innumerable blind forces are limited, made to balance one against the other, brought to form a united whole by something which we do not understand, but which we call beauty."
-Simone Weil