A painting is an event, a meeting place where viewers may engage privately with their thoughts and observations concerning the art presented to them, or in the best of circumstances share their thoughts and observations with others. I believe the artist ought to be invisible, out of the picture. The artist's job is to facilitate meditation and ultimately conversation. 

My paintings are not about me. I'm motivated to wean viewers from the passive role of fan that they've been encouraged to embrace by art marketeers. I am not a brand. A painting emphasizing its author's presence is like the "Hello I'm so-and-so" tags individuals wear at business conventions that are both superficial and occasionally inaccurate. 

Once I asses a painting as complete, I become just another viewer. My opinion or reaction to it is no more important than anyone else's. If a viewer finds just one painting on this website intriguing, I have succeeded as an artist.

The first group of paintings you'll find here are from a new series focussed on flowers and the genre of still life. Each blossom I encounter is interpreted according to its's visual idiosyncrasies and graphic implications more than its commonly recognized environmental and aesthetic conventions. I strive to make each canvas challenging to a viewer’s presumptions regarding the traditional look of a flower in a painting. 

"Fictions", 2017-2013, combines words with painted images. I composed the words to sound like fragments of larger narratives or documents, and most importantly, as fictional voices. They are neither confessions nor editorial captions. I see them functioning more like the inter-title panels used in early silent films. 

The portraits are self explanatory. 

I see the earlier multiple panels and mixed media pieces as precursors to the "Fictions" series. Some make reference to ancient mythology.