Art is life and life is art. 

I paint because it completes and extends me. I believe that human beings lose their capacity to live if they can’t create. I’ve had many people say to me, “I don’t have an artistic bone in my body…” or something life that. But, I believe we are made in the image of our Creator and are therefore creative by nature, whether we realize it or not. When we create, we thrive. All of us!

Self-taught, I did not pick up a paint brush until I was 38 years old. I never knew I could paint. You might ask “Why did you start?”  My grandmother died, and I honestly didn’t know what to do with the sadness and loss. I needed to preserve her memory - to honor her. Was it a nudge from God that caused me to start painting? I don’t know, but I bought some paints and a canvas and two weeks later, I had an amazing likeness of her. To me, it was like seeing her one last time - on the other side. And when I finished, I had an overwhelming sense of peace and release from the sadness.

For me, art is spiritual. I have an extensive background and education with the spiritual. Seminary educated, I’ve studied and learned a few things about God and the spiritual. But making art transcends all of this. Intuitive in its creation and ethereal in nature, I believe that art can carry us from the mundane and transport us to a utopic realm, boundless and without rules - a place of hope, expansion, and unlimited possibility. 

But it requires participation - from me and you. 

As an artist, I transcend each time I paint. It transposes ME. And if I get out of the way of myself, something magical happens on that canvas. Call it catharsis or whatever, but art appears as I persevere. And the finished piece has its own story to tell.

Art also requires something of YOU. As the viewer, and hopefully the collector, YOU interact with what you see before you. You must be jolted and affected by what you see when you look at a piece that I’ve created.  It is my hope as an artist, that when you see my work, you will be swept away to somewhere above and beyond the ordinary, as if looking through a window into the mind and the soul - somewhere spiritual.

Cheers,