artist statement
We can not feel the Earth because of the concrete. We can not see the stars because of the streetlights. It is with my paintings that through color and squigglism I hope to consume the viewer. The veil is ripped away; the gauge removed...revealing colors in their purest form. My colors are not blended but straight from the tube side by side blending as the viewer steps back. With all in squiggles it shows the unity to all that exists. It uproots the viewer and gives them like an awakening electric shock of sudden awareness of the surroundings. It reminds us that we are humans, one with the world. That in our flesh is the dust of stars, intermingled elements combined into life, substances born at the moment of Creation.

Perhaps, before our earthly existence, our souls were united with the One. Through the process of birth, we are put into flesh and the world becomes our foster parent, set with a vengeance to make us forget where we have came through romantic love, pain, terror, pleasures.....weddings, births, jobs, concrete, streetlights..... We become unattached and our connection is broken. I hope that with my paintings the viewer is not only given an acute awareness of nature and our lengths with it, but hopefully a stirring of memories from childhood when the world was magical, the woods were adventures, the seas presented dreams of fantasies of worlds beyond.... To not only become aware of your place in nature but memories of where you had come and with that.... a moment of peace knowing that in death we will be once again united with the One.

William Wordsworth expressed these ideas in his poems...and I follow his clouds that blaze of glory. It is his wisdom and philosophy that seems close to the truth to me. It was Vincent Van Gogh, whose hand and eye caught the pure colors. He seems to have captured the Divine's vitality by the passionate strokes of his brush. With his eyes and vision he stripped the veils. With his hands and his passion, he transcribed the magnificent glory of the unity of the Divine and human soul. I can not think of many other times I am so sure of God's existence, when my faith is the strongest, are the moments I have Wordsworth words in my head and Van Gogh's paintings in my eyes.

It is my goal to give beauty back to the world. Through my paintings I seek to strip away the veil and reveal the Divine energy, "the squiggles", that flow through everything. There is an interplay with all things, music unheard by the ear, but rhythms seen by the eye. My colors reveal emotion, a state of being of the object; or perhaps it is when a viewer projects their own feelings so that the object's essence is but a mirror of one's true self.

Trees are symbolic of man reaching for the Divine though their roots/feet are planted firmly in the ground. The sun is the source of Divinity.

The "squiggles" are the ether, "life." Through colors and rhythm there arises a sublime serenity; a resting place within our hearts, the true landscapes of our heavens.