Creating individuals is what I find most interesting in the studio.  It is my hope that these portraits will be familiar characters to the viewer, subjects we recognize and identify with.  My work consistently travels along a general vein of the universal human experience.  Recently human features have been introduced.  Other aspects of this work directly reference the anthropomorphic petroglyph like characters in which I first based my interest in painting.  These realistic stylized faces placed within loosely interpreted animal shapes and costumes narrate a continued thesis of dichotomy and metaphor - comparing and contrasting human ideas with animal instinct. 

Irony, contradiction, humor and tragedy, have been continued themes in my work and are illustrated not only within the image, but within the actual paint and surface of the painting.

Paint as color and paint as matter have always been central themes to my work.  Removing paint throughout the process of creating an image is of equal or greater importance than adding paint. This method of wiping, scraping and sanding enables the apparent worn and built up surface to be paradoxically buried within a pristine and untouched surface, resulting in a contrasting yet uniform aesthetic.

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