My work is primarily abstract, inspired by the natural world. I begin each painting with a person, object or experience in mind. Oftentimes, the work derives from a moment of passion I have experienced. Through uninhibited mark making I let the painting process re-evoke that moment to create something new and vital. 

The paintings are discovered within the process of making them, not mapped out beforehand. Intuition and chance balanced with real life observation and memory come together to create psychological pictures that challenge the viewer by offering up a combination of abstract and representational elements while simultaneously revealing the history of how they are made. Some passages expose the surface below while others hold a thick impasto of pigment. The end result is made up of swirling gesticulations of texture, form and color, scratched, dripped, and drawn, recording the rise and fall of energy and fierce physicality with which each piece is executed. The paintings become places where the memory of fury, lust, intimacy and a deeply rooted urgency to connect to another human being merge as one powerful force and where creative energy and sexual energy become one.