I want to create folk art for the time we live in. Using bright colors, detailed rendering and trick perspectives on large canvas, I aim to draw viewers into the image and have a “cinematic” experience. I have also animated many of my work and placed them on YouTube. Thematically, my work is part of the continuing dialogue concerning mortality and morality. While these thoughts are intensely private, they are also things that everyone thinks about, very much a part of our collective consciousness. It is my hope to invoke a sense of recognition/collective memory in the viewers.
Favourite Visual Artist
Francisco Goya, Winsor McCay, Richard Scarry
Favourite Movies
The Shinning
Favourite TV Shows
The Wire
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Velvet Underground, Joy Division, The Smiths
Favourite Books
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Color by Victoria Finlay, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Favourite Writers
Paul Bowles, Dorothy Parker
Tools of the Trade
Oil paint, Photoshop, CrazyTalk Animation