statement

My botanical oil paintings are a kind of iconic portraiture. They are created using multi-tonal layers of oil paint, graphite, wax, and other media in transparent liquidity and textured impasto. Sensitive drawing is combined with intentional and chance occurrences in paint, illuminating delicate, fibrous, inner workings. It is my intention to create recognition, a connection that is perhaps instinctive, of a viewer's own inner energy, wherein we may find profound nourishment.