Artist's Statement

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Making people, and binding them to uncomfortable positions, provokes an intense dialogue between the creator and created, like a mirror of our own reality in discussion with my creator, and this parallel lends the finished naive-looking paintings maturity.

I work to make life-like things on canvas. My things are people generally whose identities are only in the paintings. They are not depictions or copies. They are real and grow to inhabit their flat space the way a person inhabits their world to feel realized.  Bound to the flat.

Existentially, these figures are made for people to stare at, which is unnatural, as is trying to be round on a flat surface.  These and other reasons make for a strange relationship  between the figure, the painter and the viewer.  

My figures own their space and own their own distrotions, that only they can exhibit.​

Purpose and intent are most important in artistic endeavor. Beauty, harmony, and the gratification of human acheivement are among the driving forces.