The World Wept Drawing

ARTIST STATEMENT Narratives are at the heart of the human existence and the focus of my body of figurative work. Every human being has their own story; every human body has their own unique experiences, passions, dreams and desires. This commonality of the human condition and this diversity, the dichotomy between the universal and the individual, is explored through both the layering and the exposing of figurative forms utilizing a variety of painting and drawing techniques as well as mixed media. Working both from life and from my own photographs, I seek to expose not only that which is obvious in the sitter’s physical form, but also to explore the layering of individual narrative, the stories of experience and lives lived that ultimately are expressed in the physicality of the human form itself.