It is difficult to describe my work in just one statement, because the work is an evolution. With the Madonna series, my work began by looking at the theme of creation by using the female form overlapping with nature. With the Soul Landscape series, I started looking at how we create our personal landscape during our journey from birth to death. First my thoughts were about how parts of us continuously break apart to create fertile ground for what is to grow next, creating a sort of unique energy signature or sound. The Torso series is something I did for fun and to clear my head of so much seriousness. I have up to this point gone back and forth between figurative and abstract painting, so I decided to do a totally abstract body of work with the Texture series. This body of work really explores the breaking up of form and the creation of sound and movement. With all of my work I build up many layers creating places of both noise and quiet on one canvas. I am really looking at how to describe energy.
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