Artist Statement

Dynamic orange cliffs crested with lush green foliage, wet canyons, hot dusty hillsides and the relentlessly steep hills of the Palos Verdes Peninsula shaped my aesthetic sensibility during my youth and continue to influence how I view a blank canvas. My formal compositions are a reflection of this sensibility and are characterized by organic elements built over a uniquely loose and organic geometric structure (much like plants growing over rolling hills, or to the edge of a cliff). Juxtapositions of sharp contrasts with expressive areas of calm communicate a primary design of the human eye: to identify changes in the environments topography in order to navigate through a potentially threatening environment. Changes in hue, value, saturation, and texture are the tools I use to mimic or contort reality in provocative poetic statements and observations. Preferring to work solely from imagination rather than from photos I work loose and get lost in the hills and valleys of the environments and narratives of my subliminal and conscious mind. It is a process that is as rewarding as it is revealing.