about me

My art is an addiction. Like any other addiction, I feel the need to fix; creation happens; I feel complete. When I’m working on a piece, and I feel the hunger leave me, I walk away until I know what else there needs to be.
Every piece is the joining of an idea with a feeling. The idea is most often the end of a long train of thought- one that I find compelling enough to keep in the back of my mind, until I feel its complete. The feeling is the imperative that makes makes me need to create. It takes the static idea and returns an interaction with the viewer, giving the piece life and emotion.
Primarily I use acrylic paint on hand stretched canvas. With acrylic I get an immediate and primal feel. The low toxicity means I can get in close to my work, I don’t to worry about what object I use to move the paint, be it a brush, my lucky rolling pin or my hands. I can paint as the need takes me, and walk away when the feeling leaves. A goodly amount of my work incorporates objects I have laying around in my life. These objects, through their association with me, have developed their own meaning, separate from their traditional values. I see their value, and incorporate it into a final work when I feel its needed. When I feel I need to do an edition, I typically will do a serigraph. Silkscreening is a valid method for printing on numerous materials, and much like acrylic paint, gives a definite immediacy to the piece.