Artist Statement

My art is drawn from life experiences. Through observation, at times before the motif, it combines the sensation of vision, personal emotions, and the abstract and expressive possibilities of painting, drawing, and sculpture.  My emotional and historical attachments to people, places, and things are the motives to create works which take on a life of their own independent of the original represented. Through art I hope to achieve a measured intimacy and poetry, a reflective understanding of human life so often lacking in the contemporary menagerie.