Art for me is a way of dealing with life. We all face challenges, some big and some small, but it is what we do in light of those challenges that defines us. The process of making images is my way of constantly and consistently moving forward through life. In a world with so much ugly I strive to put a little beauty back into it.

It hasn’t always been this way. In fact in the beginning I saw it as an easy major in college. Just something a lazy kid could do to appease his parents “Look mom and dad I am going to college.” As I learned to transform paint and canvas into something greater, my life was transformed in the same way. Making art, and helping others to make it, has overtime become my purpose.

My earliest artistic memory was oddly enough not at a museum, but at the public library. They had two murals, done with such thick paint that they became relief sculptures. Although it wasn’t allowed, I can remember touching the surface of the work and feeling a connection to it. In my own work I strive to create a beautiful surface.

Regardless of the subject matter I always strive to make beautiful marks. Inspired by great artists of the past and present I strive for variety in any and every way. To achieve this variety I employ a variety of techniques. I employ everything from scraping, squeegeeing, to troweling on the paint. And although I consider myself a realist, I treat every area of the painting as its own abstract work.  

The subject, or rather subjects, of my work mainly revolve around still life. I find still life gives me ultimate control over composition, and lighting. In this way I can determine the mood, and underlying expression of my work. In my work I am trying to capture what I felt from that earliest artistic memory. I don't recall the narrative, or what the purpose of the paintings were. Instead I am left recalling elements of surface, and the feeling the paintings gave me. In the end the goal of my work is to inspire. To help others find the path that has brought so much joy and meaning into my life.