From the Mulch Painting

I do oil paintings as well as mixed media paintings that I cover and/or fill with internal sculpture. I love building complexity with layers and materials. It speaks to me of the many ways of seeing reality. With the understanding that many issues arise from being removed from our true nature, making these paintings has been a way to map the alchemy in my emotional landscape and contemplate ideas about good and bad. I use a combination of abstract forms, figurative forms, and the relief sculpture to visually acknowledge the variety of physical as well as invisible aspects to experience. I have personally come a long way from a place of addiction and hopelessness, and art has been one avenue through which my life has opened up. I am interested in the connection between thought and spiritual fruition. Since all action begins in thought. In my experience, thinking is extremely hard work, but can open whole spectacular vistas of emotion, capacity and meaning that were previously unknowable. In my worlds, there are fires to light, roads to follow, good food to eat, battles to be fought, devotions to preform, dance steps to master and rest to take. My art is about exposing what is hidden from oneself and affirming the point of moving on into the mystery of one’s journey.