In my mixed media paintings, I create tactile counter-environments that express myth and uncover the mystery hidden within reality.  I juxtapose dualities - fragility/strength, ancient/contemporary, external/internal - to exploit a tension where balance and meaning collide to form a coherent inner vision.  

My materials are carefully chosen and strongly symbolic.  My work contains recurring motifs and materials including golden labyrinths, fluid backdrops, crackled textures, vintage books, silks, feathers, eggshells, and line drawings of suspended worlds.  I hope that my images take viewers deeper within their own realm of realization.  

“I’m interested in reconstructing symbols.  It’s about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for Heaven.” Anselm Kiefer    

A Labyrinth Line Existence

The title of my new body of work, “A Labyrinth Line Existence” is a quote from David Bowie’s interview on the 1993 “Black Tie White Noise” film.  His music and words played repeatedly during the creation of these paintings and inspired the resulting images.  Bowie has been a strong influence on my work, which has developed into a visual vocabulary on the canvas.