I paint human beings, the human beings
that I see and interact with as I go through my days. It is a struggle and aspiration to create a meditative,
illusionistic depiction of these human beings, and I haven’t figured out yet if
my knowing them facilitates, or distracts my creative process. My art has a
stillness. It consists of an obsession of line quality, color and expression.
It is the countless hours of meditation and analysis of proportion, the rituals
of brush washing, palette preparation, and color matching.
In my art, I desire to create images that
provide examples of people not glamorized, nor distorted and caricatured. With
observation and meditation of these images, I hope viewers would analyze what
it means to be human, to be observed by others, to represent themselves
honestly in their living, and to not be ashamed.
In painting just one subject, I emphasize
individuals. The title of my most recent show, RELATIVE, refers to the fact
that despite our individuality, and maybe because of it, our interactions with
others create definition, or contrast, or comparison; hopefully understanding
and acceptance.
