Painting Gallery

In my paintings I often explore the link between physical bodies and the unconscious. This link materializes spirituality, it is how "God" by any name communicates to each of us. It is literally the embodiment of spirituality. By focusing my works on physcialities, mostly with postures or physicalities that allude to disturbed emotional or mental states, I'm trying to unravel the societal, physical and emotional residue that we accumulate that keeps us from our source as pure spirit.

To do this I allude to a wide range of spiritual traditions as offering paths that might have something to offer the pilgrim of enlightenment, or might contribute more to our confusion and problems.

My works takes the form of a dream state because this is where we get our communication both directly from our body and from our source. My paintings are like a dream state- confusing, surreal and mixed up with snatches that look like familiar reality. Dreams use a "universal" visual language, which  also makes them confoundingly difficult to decipher. But dreams communicate much like paintings using metaphor, puns and humor to make their point, so there is often a literal way into the code, which I often draw upon.

-Artists Statement, 2000