Artist'sStatement
"In order to get something
universal you must be very specific" - Max Beckman
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance" - Aristotle
Symbols play a primary role in the content of my work.
Some of these symbols are obvious, while
others are obscurely private. They are
drawn from my own personal iconography, ancient cultures and previous
art genres. I continue to find inspiration in the ‘vanitas’ of the
Dutch and their conventional use of ordinary subjects to symbolize
a wide variety of universal experiences.
My still-life’s and portraits
are suffused with a varied array of content:
hope, trust, vanity, frailty, fear, wisdom, knowledge, love, fidelity,
memory, death, faith, the soul, spirit, purity, and most of all the
contrast of the temporal and the eternal.
I remain passionate about
still-life subjects and their inference
of the human imprint on our surroundings.
I hope my paintings will
stir each individual to introspectively
ponder their meaning using their own life experience to define a personal
conclusion as to their content.
"I applied my heart to what I
observed and learned a lesson from what I saw." –Solomon’s Wisdom |
