“It is my hope that my work opens doors of wonder for the audience and that each painting offers viewers a contemplative space that is layered and complex, one that promotes visual exploration, and one that elicits an emotional response. By building up the layers of each surface, I try to imbue them in a rich history, a sense of mystery, and a complex atmosphere - at times ambiguous, at times geometrically divided and rigidly defined, an assertion of structure within the chaos. Elements other than paint are added to push beyond more traditional limitations and expectations, to offer additional contextual and symbolic references, and to add both literal and metaphorical dimensions to the paintings.”