“My goal as an artist and painter is to challenge the viewer with a degree of complexity and ambiguity while impacting them on a purely aesthetic level. When I paint, I often find myself thinking of Don Henley’s lyrics “Frail grasp of the big picture”. My thought process wanders through landscapes, cultures, nature, geometrics, symbols, motifs, and last but not least, the female form. I consider color before form and form before function. I encourage you to create your own big picture or meaning. Take the thought and come to a personal space that crystalizes your perception. My answers, your interpretations. History, Religion, Nature, the Earth, Gender, Culture, Symbols, Motifs, a lot of what ifs. Approaching lateness for humane tomorrows. Life repeats circumstances, enabling change, altering outcomes, creating a future of color equal to form, then function without malice. And finally just beauty. I want to leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Picasso  He said I paint what I think, more so than what I see, although I do paint what I have seen.

“Color is a power that influences the soul” – Kandinsky

“Color before form, Form before function” – Hans Hofmann