Current Work: In the Spirit of Children 2024-current
Current Work: Animals in Colour 2020-Present
I feel a story and try to paint it. Painting this last 25+ years is like painting a common conversation I’m having about the world that relates to our own humanity, with the hope and bias it makes us feel better, see beauty and feel some strength or a glimmer of reprieve in our short and wonderful lives.
I capture, through color and shape, a mood or feeling that is expressed by the gesture of the body or symbolism of color, rather than portraying a literal depiction of a person or animal. I want to paint something that you wake up to everyday, that makes you smile, feel relief and hopeful, like an inspiring affirmation or even a simple deep breath.
Recently animals have held my attention. Like color and gesture, animals can connect us to the parts of ourselves, that mirrors the world we know can be better than it sometimes feels; tapping into the raw parts of ourselves that allow us to heal, cry, inspire, love and find beauty.
Animals are historic teachers too. I’m pulling for them like I am people. That we all have a place in the order of things like the platypus. That we can notice our differences and embrace them as what makes us all more beautiful and playful. That our differences can make us better as a whole.
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