2010

My paintings portray an environment where abstract ideas are tweaked to become human, and human emotions are abstracted into painterly process. My work attempts to convert subconscious ideas into individual portraits through the intuitive process of oil painting so they can be more thoroughly examined through the guise of the human form. 

It is my goal to create a visual language for not just what the eye actually sees, but also for the sensory acts of perceiving and interpreting that information.  Because the past not just sheds light on, but establishes an understanding of the present, my painting process combines remembered events with direct representation to create a fusion of past and present.  I work from the understanding that the elaborate and often misguided nature of memory that stems from dreams and the subconscious imagination is a real part of self reflection and an essential component of reality.