Artist Statement

My work comes from my own observations and experiences through physical sensation, sound, and visual stimuli. Visually, I am collecting bits of movement, shape, and space, then translating them into two-dimensional, still images. I’m interested in fractal self-replication and the patterns that make up the smallest and largest aspects of our world and are echoed over and over in between.

From an audience perspective- very generally- people will look at my work and see what they want to see. The imagery lives as both everything and nothing. I appreciate that I can visually represent a wide range of scales within my imagery. One painting can portray the microscopic- down to the cellular level, or the inconceivably large at a galactic scale, or the entirely make-believe and everything in between. Or it is a play of color and transparency. The organic forms become living beings that can simultaneously inhabit each of these identities.

The spiral motif- though often obscured through layers of abstraction- symbolizes life, death, and rebirth. This applies to not only our life cycles and those of our surroundings but also to the processes and patterns occurring and repeating beyond our base-level perception.

The delicate and subtle shifts of color I am able to achieve in working with fluid, thin washes of paint emphasize the organic qualities of my subjects. There’s also the aspect of motion and releasing some control from my own hands. The natural actions of the paint are just as important to me as the growing process of a spiral snail shell or the turning of the tides.