Paintings

Since late 2005 I have been painting in a way that I label Photo Expressionism. Typically, I use intense expressionistic or Fauvist colors to heighten the visual intensity of my painted subjects.

I have intentionally chosen traditional subjects such as portrait, landscape and still life settings. I aim to combine the accuracy of photography with the high intensity color sense of expressionism, and encourage viewers to relook at subjects they might not linger on because they are traditional and perhaps un-dramatic without the intense color and value.

It is my belief that everyday occurrences are just as important as those seemingly more singular events on which the media would focus our attention.

With this approach, I hope to relocate our attention on family, friends, or places in a way that revives interest in what we might sometimes label mundane.

Mixed Media

My recent mixed media artwork are part of a series I call “Gleanings.”

I give the series this title because these artworks incorporate metal washers, nuts, plates and other metal debris that I find along streets and highways as I walk.

My intention is to take what is serendipitous and unplanned (that which is discarded or unintentionally lost) and combine it with the intentional (that which is chosen and intentionally planned or organized).

Printmaking

I am excited about the possibilities of monoprints and have come to like the similarity between monoprints and humans.

Monoprints, as opposed to monotypes, make use of the same plate for several printings. Humans too, have much in common with each other physically, intellectually, spiritually and emotionally, but they are in no way uniform in the ways they look and act.

Monoprints, though they have an underlying similarity dictated by the execution of the printing plate, can be quite diverse in impact.

A change in paper, color and means of application can lead to subtle or extreme differences, and with each printing of the same plate the nature of the visual dance is altered.

Drawings

Current Work

My recent mixed media artwork is entitled: After The Storm, which is a continuation of a series from 2012 I called Gleanings.

Gleanings originated from incorporating metal washers, nuts, plates and other metal debris that I found along streets and highways. My intention was to take what was serendipitous and unplanned (discarded or unintentionally lost) and combine it with an intentionally planned and organized theme, of rebuilding and renewing for a greater purpose.

After The Storm picks-up where Gleanings became a life interrupted. It reflects a process of creation that began with no plan and no message, but rather the simple act of sitting in my studio and starting somewhere to see where the journey through art would take me. My purpose was to create; to reengage with my artwork through an intuitive process, and to find my voice through art once again.

The journey through this body of work has given me the desire and inspiration to begin moving towards creating some of my former styles of artwork.