We'll Never Understand Everything (and that's ok)

    I trust my creative process, my curiosity, and my deep respect for the natural world. I like to think of my paintings as one way Nature expresses itself.
     Examining, confronting, and celebrating Nature and the transience of life through form and movement, I want to share how Nature and time constantly expand and contract all around us, kindling our sense of awe, urgency, and wonder.
     I hope my work serves as a reminder to be receptive to mystery and change. We'll never understand everything and that's ok. Keep trying, make mistakes, cry, laugh, fall, rise up, never stop learning. This one life, this "self" is ephemeral, yet composed of myriad generations of lived experience carried forward genetically and epigenetically. That just blows my mind. It's why I'm drawn to painting abstracted environments where "self" is fully accepted and absorbed as inherent to the whole. I'd like to live in that environment.
    So of course I believe that my personal life experience makes its way into my paintings while Nature reminds us that we are all part of something larger. And I believe that when you experience or view a work of art—the creative outpouring of another human—you too, tap into that something larger, bringing your own life experience to the work.
     Finally, I believe that with or without humans, some form of Nature will endure and I find that comforting.
      Each of my paintings is a declaration of these convictions and a record of my mercurial adventure through these complex days.
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"Maybe is Enough" 38H x 60W inches on canvas. Tap for price and details.