About my work

I believe that before anything else a painting has to first be a good painting and that is essentially all I’m trying to do. Easier said than done and easier to recognize than describe

There are inherent qualities about paint and the process of painting that are both seductive and elusive. My work is about that process; A series of decisions about the pieces and relationships that make a painting.

Painting is an organic process.  It grows and changes. Each painting’s process is unique to itself and rarely is the process linear.  It’s addition, subtraction and reevaluation. It’s balancing preconceptions with evolution, chaos-and control.

I seldom know what the end result will be.

I work more from intuition than I do analytically and try to trust my sensibilities. I feel my way through a painting.

In terms of imagery I paint what I am drawn to not necessarily knowing why I’m drawn to it other than it being evocative. I try not to over think it and again trust my intuitions. Knowing why I choose what I chose to paint is not necessarily important. The importance is simply in the choosing as it becomes an extension of the self.

Much of what I paint comes from a variety of sources. I cut images from magazines or newspapers. I scan the web and cull through my own photographs.  Some of my paintings are based on a single image though more recently I’ve altering my source material by cutting and reassembling or creating collages with from parts of the images in combination with other elements.

My recent work has been dealing with the duality of paint in a more direct manner. Working with what paint is physically and the illusions it can create by incorporating seemingly divergent styles in a single image.  An image that is both representative and abstract; each part being equally important.