“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” - Georgia O'Keeffe
"Sweetie, nothing beats a try." - Gillian Duran (If you know her, your lucky) My work reflects the emotional backdrops silently experienced within the human heart and mind. I grew up resonating with the dark moods evoked in the Dutch masters, Spanish painters, and American landscape artists. Much like the urban streets I walked from childhood into my 30s; those works reflect a surprising amount of beauty within a constant stream of sorrow, sickness, poverty, and heartbreak. I continue to develop a conversation within my work to provoke a sense of being seen and heard. A conversation about being human. And a visual insistence that nothing beats a try. |