My paintings live in stark contrast to my professional creative life, where everything is methodical, strategic, and aligned by necessity. That world is about outcomes.
In painting, there are no rules or repercussions. It is where my mind quiets and my subconscious is free to speak in symbols, dreams, and fragments.
These pen and ink drawings emerge from the same free-flow process as my paintings, but on a smaller, quieter scale. Each piece begins with a just a scribble, a loose mark on a page. From there, I slowly tease out a character or moment, letting the drawing unfold intuitively.
My work explores surreal figurative abstraction through an intuitive, mixed media process. Each piece begins without a plan and unfolds like a visual riddle, revealing characters, emotions, and strange narratives layered in paint.
Title: Morning After Sex
Medium: Acrylic & ink on wood panel Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
Title: Adam And The Bad Apple
Medium: Acrylic & ink on wood panel Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
Title: The Pilgrim and the Omen
Medium: Acrylic & ink on wood panel
Dimensions: 36 x 24 inches
Artist Statement
I begin each piece without a plan, only a willingness to play. The process is intuitive, free, and rooted in curiosity. I layer paint, texture, and gesture until something begins to emerge: an echo of a figure, a flicker of narrative, a shape that wants to be seen. Then comes the pause. I stare, I search, I listen. From the abstract noise, an image slowly rises. I carve the background to give it form, then refine and build until the character feels fully alive and undeniably present.
This work lives in stark contrast to my structured creative life, where everything is methodical, strategic, and aligned by necessity. That world is about outcomes. In painting, there are no rules or repercussions. It is where my mind quiets and my subconscious is free to speak in symbols, dreams, and fragments.
Each piece is a celebration of the absurd, the mythic, and the half-remembered. They are not planned but discovered. Visual riddles I reveal one layer at a time.
Title: The Centurion
Medium: Acrylic & ink on wood panel
Dimensions: 18 x 48 inches
Pen & Pencil Drawings
My Little Dixlings
These pen and ink drawings emerge from the same free-flow process as my paintings, but on a smaller, quieter scale. Each piece begins with a just a scribble, a loose mark on a page. From there, I slowly tease out a character or moment, letting the drawing unfold intuitively. The results often feel like glimpses into odd little worlds: soft and strange, humorous and melancholy. These are visual fables, fragments of thought, or subconscious jokes. Unplanned but deeply personal to me.