The Garden Series is a meditation on the Goddess. Much of the work deals with feminine power, sexuality and the need to bring the elements of life into balance.

The World is a meditation on what is perceived and experienced.

"The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret
recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night..." -- Carl Jung

How one arrives at the source is always a mystery. As an artist, I exalt the creative act as a means for departure. Always, I look to transcend the ordinary. Alone with a work, creating, I am able to compress and elongate time. Within this space the image appears (and it is within the image that the eternal moment is possible). It is an act of alchemy to pull images out of the fantastical hat of the imagination. Often, the first images that come have their own particular sensibility or kind of honesty. I interpret these images in the same way I interpret dreams in order to push the image to it's fullest potential.

This ability to be sensitive to the needs of the image, means that I escape my personal self in order to cultivate an aesthetic. Even the characters I construct are looking beyond themselves. They attempt to inhabit a feeling or a dream, to get inside some hidden reality. It may be a matter of the heart, a matter of philosophy, a matter of lust or identity, but even they appear to be searching and like all of us they contemplate the complexity of an inner life.

Like most artist who are concerned with the human figure, I work to maintain the vulnerability of the image. As an artist I look to dreams, to history and to the physical world for symbolic significance. I hope this will resonate with my viewer and allow us to inhabit a unified space.

The images that come...

Like all my other works, this collection deals with contemplative space, interior dialogues and a symphony of moods. I have several more images in progress that are not yet finished. When hung together, they should speak to each other. Here is a sample of the work.