Storm Painting

I am a Neo-Expressionist working on stretched canvas with mixed media. I’m infatuated with the way different materials work to achieve depth and movement. I love combining the very real images with the beauty of a free brush. I build layers of opaque paint over contrasting pearlescents and metallic. When I start a painting, often the painting will dictate to me what it will be, accident combined with intuition. Some of the materials I love include; acrylic paint, loose powdered pigments, toner, glitter, graphite powder, sponified wax, white pre-coat treated rice paper, spray-paint, resin, watercolor crayons, pencil and markers. I’m obsessed with the subconscious and constantly strive to appeal to deep unconscious emotions. The themes that I love to explore are religion, the passing of time, death, nature, (in a metaphysical rather than literal sense) sexuality, beauty, temptation, and fear. Some of my influences are Dali, Manray, Chagall, Picasso, Avedon, Helmet Newton and Giacometti.