As an artist, the fundamental purpose of my work, is to connect with the viewer. It’s about showing your thought and eliciting a reaction, offering an experience, in order to establish a relationship. My purpose is to express myself in color, connecting shapes, and texture. Sometimes I paint simply to make an image, to exercise my skill, or design something that’s beautiful for it’s own sake, that someone will relate to.

In the sketching stages of my Encircled company of paintings, my goal is to deconstruct familiar images into simplistic shapes, that interact to form new shapes. A flowing calligraphy of lines that intersect and form something new, yet retain enough of a representational figure. This is where color has an incredible impact and has to be placed perfectly, like puzzle pieces that fit together, or the image doesn’t live.

My abstract work is about pure expression. But there has to be tradition that dictates a successful piece. Composition, a focal point, cohesive color palette, . Brush strokes and texture are so important. It might be comfort or chaos.