About

My work begins with ink and pen. I cross-hatch until a dense web of lines forms on the canvas.

The process sometimes takes weeks, until I feel that the skeleton has been built. After that, I move on to oil paints. At times the oil is thinned and transparent, allowing the cross-hatching to show through, and at times it completely covers it. Even in works where the ink layer cannot be seen, it still lives beneath the skin of the paint.

The oil colors are the flesh and sinews woven over the tangle of lines. Then, I “dig” into the paint, thicken it, and try to refine its coloration. The richer the material quality of the paint becomes, the more I feel that the soul enters the body of the painting.

I am drawn to minor, marginal, and sometimes absurd states of reality, and I try to illuminate them and infuse them with meaning, to spark hope and uplift the spirit. My works reflect both the private and the universal human condition in a world of estrangement, alienation, and loneliness, while striving to create closeness, love, and a narrative in a world without meaning, and order in a world of chaos. When it succeeds, the world becomes a home.