Welcome To My Online Studio
My work as an artist and teacher has spanned my life lived on both sides of the Atlantic so far. My environment becomes part of me as I move through it, but my artistic language remains deeply rooted in the traditions of European painting.
I have a need to make images about people and the human condition, but representational goals alone never satisfy me. I find myself searching for a core archetypal energy that informs the subject matter of the image below its representational surface. It is for this reason I often work away from reality, preferring to pull my imagery from memory and imagination.
With the human experience as my immediate subject matter, my fascination is with our instinctual energies which unconsciously drive so many of our actions. This marvelous animal nature connects us to the earth and to our beginnings. It lies thinly veiled behind our sophisticated behaviors, and yet remains the dynamo that drives our human lives. I find that those archetypal energies that I seek in visual form can sometimes best be expressed through animal imagery.
Through my invented animals, and human forms I am able to connect with, to claim, and to understand something of those less conscious energies.
The organic process of growth within the development of each image always plays between the polarities of abstraction and figuration with the figurative elements always ultimately winning out. However, most recently I have found that sometimes working from some reference can give me the tools that I need for a more conceptual kind of expression. As a result I find that I am creating two kinds of imagery, one immediate, intuitive and expressive; the other a more analytical, realistic and controlled vehicle or conduit for those conscious and less conscious drives.
I have a need to make images about people and the human condition, but representational goals alone never satisfy me. I find myself searching for a core archetypal energy that informs the subject matter of the image below its representational surface. It is for this reason I often work away from reality, preferring to pull my imagery from memory and imagination.
With the human experience as my immediate subject matter, my fascination is with our instinctual energies which unconsciously drive so many of our actions. This marvelous animal nature connects us to the earth and to our beginnings. It lies thinly veiled behind our sophisticated behaviors, and yet remains the dynamo that drives our human lives. I find that those archetypal energies that I seek in visual form can sometimes best be expressed through animal imagery.
Through my invented animals, and human forms I am able to connect with, to claim, and to understand something of those less conscious energies.
The organic process of growth within the development of each image always plays between the polarities of abstraction and figuration with the figurative elements always ultimately winning out. However, most recently I have found that sometimes working from some reference can give me the tools that I need for a more conceptual kind of expression. As a result I find that I am creating two kinds of imagery, one immediate, intuitive and expressive; the other a more analytical, realistic and controlled vehicle or conduit for those conscious and less conscious drives.
