The source of many of my images come from photographs that are later manipulated, distorted or re-interpretated into large scale paintings that become highly aestheticized compositions in glowing, vibrant colors. I like fractured imagery that takes on an intensity and exactness that grabs the viewer right into a billboard style of painting and yet remains somewhat ambiguous.

I'm the kind of artist that would spend weeks and months in the studio happily immersed in a self-contained world of creativity, but there were also long periods of non-activity spent in quiet reflection and then suddenly, ideas would come in a cascade. All I had to do was harvest them out of the air and begin painting. Everything would fit into place- the image, the context, the colors, the composition. The artwork began to take on a life of it's own.

For a while, I was obsessed with full frontal facial images of beautiful men and women. No backgrounds, just faces blown up so large they become a dominant presence. It forces the viewer to really explore the unwavering power of the face that we might normally seek to avoid.