Safari Painting

My artworks begin with a desire to try something new and are driven by passionate, fervorous feelings inspired by nature, current events, animals and the complexity of the universe. I do not believe in starting at the end, and so I oppose starting a painting with the end-image in mind. Instead, I start with a question. For example, "how will these two paints of different density interact depending on how I overlay them?" Similarly, I explore pigment dispersion in various media, the freezing and thawing of paints, magnetic and centrifugal interactions, and much more. As the experiment unfolds on the canvas, I am provided with a starting frequency which I can then embellish with more general overtones as well as more detailed oscillations to connect my thoughts into the artwork and channel my own energy. In this way, Nature and I create the artwork hand in hand. Nature does not have a color palette; rather, the universe is filled with infinitely more colors than we can see with the naked eye. I therefore utilize an enormous range of hues, temperatures and sheen, from vivid to dark, glossy to matte and warm to cool, all within the same artwork. I also do not tolerate "flat" art. I heavily use various mediums or even make my own to impart a wide range of textures into my artworks, making them "pop" out from the canvas with ridges, crevices, hills and walls. In these ways, I celebrate the complexity of reality. While I have a very open mind and am willing to try anything that is new, I do have my favorites techniques, colors, and ideas. I particularly love cells and fluid art techniques, and applying pencil-thin lines of paint with a very fine tip applicator for extreme detail. I also love vivid vitrails, metallic/iridescent pigments and bright fluorescents, since they channel my inner joy and excitement for life. My favorite topics to explore through art include the tropical paradise of the Amazon rainforest, dissociative states of mind, astrophysical and quantum phenomena and the unification of these two branches of physics, game theory, and the inability to divide a physical object in half indefinately due to the construction of space itself (which is the key to unifying quantum theory with general relativity)...to name a few! I studied Physics and Mathematics at university and since graduation worked in science research laboratories and computer programming.