After working for many years as an actor in New York and Los Angeles, I traded the performing arts for the visual arts. The impulse to create art is unexplainable. A true compulsion.

My usual works are not so much conceptually driven as they are process driven. Typically, I begin a painting by mark-making, laying color fields, and forms. Once a satisfying series of marks is laid down, I start layering with texture and color. Areas of the painting can then be scraped back revealing earlier marks and allowing the history of the painting’s development to become visible. Initial color choices are negotiated intuitively and as the painting develops, using a form of painterly logic that is intrinsic to each work, those choices become more and more analytical. If you look at your work long enough, it will tell you what to do.

My paintings reflect the emotional space through which the creation of artwork is filtered, and the influences of the world around me that come into play and impact my work. My goal is to make paintings that carry both an edge and an intimacy, mysteriousness and sensuality and to create the sense of illusory spaces within them. I want the viewer to look and imagine at the same time.