Just as music and dance, from birth, are native within us all, one can find many other natural forms of self expression within themselves. As we get older, these may never be so obvious as in children wiggling to music or slopping it up with finger paints, but one day we realize as in the John Sebastian line:  

”I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”. 

For me, the need to contrast/counteract the more tedious demands of architecture with a more fluid form of self expression and the need to contrast/counteract the violence and chaos of the world, go together to help synthesize most of my work. 

Much of my work addresses the landscape, both in the traditional sense, like trees, hills, and horizons and in a more abstract sense, like the human form. Some of my work is completely fluid and flowing, watercolor like and some of my work is more static and delineated, darker and surrounding. All my work falls under the title and influence of what I call Fourteen Layers of Stains. 

In all my work, it is my hope that the viewer may feel the intended message of peace and the personal accomplishments of self expression within each piece.  Further, it is my hope that the work can help inspire each viewer in their own personal struggle with free, self expression and their willingness to make the world a better place.