ARTIST'S STATEMENT

As an artist I seek to make manifest the non-tangible in the material world. Through visual metaphor I represent the nature of human longing — longing for what we've never seen, and for what we have had and have lost; my paintings are about the ongoing emptiness that propels us through time. The human figure is my primary vehicle of expression because the viewer's natural empathetic response to another's body renders the expression more vital and clear. But at the same time, my deeper motive is to capture the fleetingness of individual human lives.

My process involves working from life, memory, and photographs to create a drawn composition which is then transferred to panel or canvas. I then proceed to work the image up in oil paint using the full range of that medium's technical potential of opaque impastos, transparent glazes, and opalescent scumbles.