“Painting is my life's work. I have been involved with this passion for nearly three decades. I have seen my work mature to such a level that I now realize it as an entity of its own, relying on me for support. I have made a home and studio in the woods of North Carolina, and I thrive in this natural and creatively inducive environment. My artwork addresses contemporary themes in painting. It has evolved from historical and prehistoric references, always searching for the core of human creative consciousness, always drawing upon clues from the most ancient to the most modern visual references available. The work is a response to these references and my reaction to the relationship I have with my own existence, depicting places, emotion, inert ponderings of life and spirituality. There is a sense of story, a sort of narrative, in the paintings used to provoke exciting aspects of deep and hidden truths we all carry within ourselves and often overlook or ignore. The visual story is one that goes back to the dawn of man. It is a story that connects us to the part of ourselves that has never changed, the constant center of human nature.”