Artist Statement

“Then I found what remains, which no one can take away.”
- Former Buddhist monk Kittisaro when speaking of his struggles with severe illness.

What do I do when I am doing nothing? I doodle. If I could doodle my days away I could be quite happy. If I could stay in the present moment and let each mark arrive at its own time, let it express what it desires without my calculations or controlling, then I could be free to truly explore creativity. Or, more aptly put, to let creativity explore me.

I approach painting like planting a garden and watching it grow organically. I paint a dot, then another, and another, allowing forms to expand into patterns, emerging into compositions.

People often relate my paintings to cellular biology, forms found in sea life, plant life, and cosmic patterns. While my ideas are certainly inspired by all types of patterns, I don’t consciously study or replicate these patterns in my paintings.

They are built from the most basic forms found in the cosmos, structures that repeat regardless of scale or substance, the underlying energetic patterns that manifest as structures in the physical plane. They represent the essential, the chi of life.