As I have come to understand it, life is all about relationships—my relationship with myself,

with my wife, my family, friends, employer, my community, and my Creator.

 

I observe relationships as a dance of dualisms: masculine and feminine, action and reaction, East and West, secular and spiritual, yin and yang.  At times harmonious.  At times discordant.  Observing this balancing act is my constant preoccupation; creating harmony in these relationships is my artistic passion.

 

Fascinated by life’s infinite dualisms, I am compelled to reconcile my love for impressionism and post-impressionism.  Two dynamic eras, the later a violent rejection of the former.  A great discord upon which I cannot resist creating harmony.  To this end, I juxtapose depth with canvas plane, realism with abstraction, atmosphere with structure, and modeling with geometric line.  I embrace both impressionism and post-impressionism and find, not discord, but an exciting new vision, fresh, distinct and individual.

 

Influences include: Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso.

Always Cézanne.

 

"I do not paint ‘things.’  I paint relationships between things."–Henri Matisse