The events and characters that make it into paintings are those of everyday life.

I find our connections and communications with each other to be fascinating and each one has some nuance of its own to pique my curiosity.  The characters, archetypal and referential, and situations I use are metaphors for the stories I’m telling. The distorted spaces, floating figures, masked faces are of a surreal world where all things are possible by imagining them.  The patterns in our lives, walking the dog, making dinner, going to work and bad habits may be continually repeated, but no matter how frequently they are, each instance is unique. I find painting to be like journaling a marking down and acknowledgement of a point in space and time. Whether it is an expression of joy, anger, love or fear it is wonderful to be able to paint and share where I’ve been.