Why do I paint? I paint to visually meditate on life, creation, and faith. When

you look at my paintings, I want you to ponder these things for yourself. What

do you believe? When you consider the world, with all its evils, poverty, and

injustice, can’t you think that there must be more? I want to explore my own

perceptions of the spiritual and mysterious elements of our reality, always

seeking Truth, and thus hoping to communicate to you, the viewer, that we all

share a common bond of struggling with answers to the great questions of

life.

The art of Francisco Goya reflected the broken-down world around him,

corrupted by the insidiousness inherent in human nature. Marc Chagall

painted beautiful dreamscapes of people and places in his life to portray a

deeply rooted Judaism combined with a questioning imagination. Georges

Rouault relished bold expressions of shape and form to convey religious

conviction. The Northwest Mystics sought to reveal spirituality through the

green-hued landscape around them with spiritual influences from across the

oceans. I humbly seek to further this visual conversation, with paint as my

lens, to see into and transcend our broken physical world and explore our

ultimately spiritual selves.