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To put it simply, what I love most is the sheer act of painting. It’s the transfer of paint from a large glass pallet to a white canvas that excites me most. While I always control the touch, I am amazed at the mark I make.
For the past two years, I have been investigating the animal form. It is a figure that has intrigued me since I was young. To watch an animal walk, eat, or play is a luxury in life whether it is domestic or wild. The animals I use allow me to talk about beastly doings, time and chaos, the environment and its effects on them.
My current work incorporates my fears and wonderments. Using the idea of a storyboard to convey a narrative, I have successfully communicated my own anxieties of loss through painting. This anxiety began when I was young and has never diminished. The loss of the familiar, of ones’ life, of other lives, the environment, and animal’s seem to always be in my thoughts as fear. It is the fear of the pain of loosing something that causes me anxiety.
The other side of my work entails my wonderments. One is the interaction of animals. If this is between two dogs or between a pride of lions and a zebra, it is equally exciting. The interactions between the two are always based on instinct. My fantasy life consists of the domestic in the wild. I want to see how animals that have never before encountered one another would interact and which of their instincts would take over.
I paint from my instinct and I have to trust it. In the last two years I have learned more then ever to listen to it. I have confronted and tested myself in different ways in order to realize who I am as a person and an artist. I am a painter who loves the process of painting.
I research all types of visual thinking to create subject and content. The use of color, composition, and touch are three constants I use. It is the challenge to solve the problem of each that compels me to paint. It’s how I push paint around.
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