The Shadow Cast By Nothing Selling The Light

Using the simple and banal subject of a woman sitting in a chair, and deviating slightly from its representation, the painting portrays an experience that cannot be explained with words, something I think with lots to look at and think about, while mixing the uncanny with the mundane.

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Detail from side angle showing some texture

Being

Gallery view

Part of the Clay Hypothesis, this painting engages with the raw, elemental forces of nature and the unconscious, while simultaneously embracing construction and process. It is about human vulnerability, imperfections, and trying to work out the greatest mystery of all: the meaning of life.

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Elderly Woman

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Gatekeeper II

Much of my artwork is about imperfection, transition, and fluidity. Things overlap, fragment and dissolve in a balance of masculinity and femininity. The subjects may be based on images I’ve seen or things I’ve experienced, or references to history, but they aren’t an illustration of a story or anything concrete. This painting, Gatekeeper II, for example, is not simply a picture of a person and lion or circus scene, even though the combination of the person wearing a clown-like outfit might conjure the idea of a circus. Circuses are strange though, and somewhat mysterious.

I choose subjects that I find interesting or ambiguous. And they interest me because in that state of unknowing, I can bend them to represent an experience or a fear or something else that cannot be explained with words but that touch the core of my being. Somewhere in the artwork is me working out the biggest mystery of all: the meaning of life.