BIO
The purpose of art is not to make an aesthetically pleasing picture; it is to bring the viewer in contact with a truth about nature or humanity through the artist’s unique emotional sensibility. It is easy to make a painting look like paint, but it is much more difficult to make a painting that pulls a viewer in so completely that he feels the heat of the sun on his neck and the sand in his shoes.
My ideas come from my experiences in the cities in which I have lived as well as the countryside where we get our food. Our societies are full of shapes and lines, such as houses, doors, windows, and faces. Those are my compositions. I represent the times in which we live, but at the same time, my work should be timeless. Spiritually, art should bring past and present worlds together. Someday, I hope people will say my paintings were unselfconscious portrayals of common things- farmers at work, people at parties, children at play, and celebrations. In my mind, these things represent the meaning of life.