About
My primary works are acrylic portraits of animals, interpreted in bold, expressive color. I explore the fascination we humans have with the natural world and our attempts to maintain a connection to it through the animals we bring into our lives to share our experience with us. There is a tenuous edge between the domestic animals we harbor and the beasts in the wild. We forget that they are fully functioning, instinctually driven, wild animals. In this age in which technology propels us far from our instinctual nature/roots, I find this intriguing.
In contrast to painting, where I stand for hours on end at an easel, I also manipulate photography in Photoshop. My digital work evokes a feeling that something is about to happen. I seek to impart a...