The only thing separating us from animals is imagination.
                                                                                 -Goya

Artist Statement

Since 1999, when I began traveling abroad, my paintings have focused on lyrical symbolism and metaphor using my own life experiences, travels, and classical literature and myth as source material.  As a lover of nature, I enjoy using birds, animals, and people as metaphysical symbols to reflect on the human condition.

By placing these symbols in classical architectural settings and landscapes in imaginative and mysterious ways, I have been able to develop an artistic language uniquely my own.  These juxtapositions also help create emotional intensity and invite contemplation about our strengths, our failures, and our most intimate longings as a contemporary society.