Artist Statement

2008-09-25

Artists take risks so the rest of us don’t have to

The world is made up of complex laws of quantum physics that determine the appearance of our natural surroundings, of everything in our world, everything that exists, everything we can see, almost.

Then there are the creative pursuits of Man, science, philosophy, architecture. Man's ability to pinpoint, refine and define these vibrating particles of light that surround him/her.

The Universe needs the observer as much as the observer needs the Universe.

We modify and replicate as we validate our existence by creating concepts other than what the world presents,by exercising this action we challenge ourselves to imagine alternatives.

When we accept without questioning we forfeit the power to control our own lives, so we question, we confront, we imagine.

Contemporary cultures such as ours, where we  are surrounded by advertising, we must constantly decide what is real and what isn't. Deciding what to observe and what not to has become a daily practice for most of us living in a modern society. The flat, decorative image has become an everyday occurrence. we are beginning to take them for granted. For me it is this obsession with flat images that makes contemporary painting so important. The painting is the arena where the impossible becomes at least plauseable, at most inspirational.

To question is important, knowledge is power and ignorance is enslavement.

The disguising of a brush stroke without ongoing references, to this painter, should be saying something more than “this is not a pipe”……

I am attempting to challenge the common availability of the flat image by finding fresh ways to describe a subject.By directly applying the paint within a  fixed a pattern, my paintings can stretch out and suggest nothing as I try not to rely on immediate impressions to give a sense of subject.

My work celebrates the medium in which the imagery dwells.