Artist Statement

In its ‘utopian’ aspirations, my work seeks to explore the mystical nature of creation in contrast to and in concert with a mechanical study of biology. At its very core, my work is a meditation on obsessive gesture and malleable response. Within these themes the work also engages in a formal and process-oriented examination of the hypnotic and contemplative potentials of painting. Each piece forms and conforms through more than a hundred layers of paint producing seductive, tactile surfaces that swell between two and three dimensions. Despite the intrinsic, artificial nature of the static surface, the resulting patterns of this process enact a sense of organic growth and physical movement.

Within these overall fields of undulating color are the layers of “noise” that surround us; I paint in a way that both reflects and rejects such overloading stimuli inherent in our ever mediated society. And yet, simultaneously my painting practice is very much about a simple meditative gesture, a repetition of touching a surface that seeks to build into it a document of contemplation. For each painting is a place—a site of record, a tracing of possibility. As they develop, materially and temporally, they become dialogues between the gesture of pure, applied color and the narrative of their reflective constitution.