"Joyous Stream" Painting

1959, Washington state USAi have lived and worked in Washington state all of my life. I built my own home on Whidbey island 16 years ago, where I live with my wife and son.Early in my life as an artist I decided that I would allow myself to make the work that inspired me regardless of other considerations. To do this I have worked two or three days a week at a job, lived inexpensively and devoted my time to making art. Over the past thirty years I have built a broad range of skills, techniques and visual languages that combine many methods and artistic references to better express the depth and breadth of my experience of life. These varied courses of painting have come together in the complex framing methods I sometimes employ. I can combine a lot of different styles by physically layering images in their frames. This allows me to juxtapose images and create a narrative form of painting without being too literal, and provides surprise and intrigue to the viewer while requiring them to process aspects of the work internally - because of the various ways that the paintings physically operate. The Internet offers an excellent venue for the exploration of the interactive character of these works.