My predominant theme of domestication; food, flowers, and children, all painted with various color palettes, expressing the simple beauty of the everyday while teasing the intellect with undercurrents of implied meaning.

I experiment with color, composition and paint application in my pursuit to create artwork that uplifts, encourages thought, and invoke feelings and memories. I endeavor to incorporate techniques of the old masters tempered in my own fashion with modern conveniences and materials. It is my hope that the injected aspect of naive honesty displayed through color and form will delight and incite positive responses in all viewers.

If there is a complicated fringe to my work (for those who need deeper meaning) it is my resolve to enhance and not to diminish the viewer’s experience with menacing and destructive visuals.

“If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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