"Corvid Cacophony" Print

Artist Statement: In my highly developed, detailed pieces, I am essentially interested in creating narrative visual tableau emphasizing an evocative, poetic relationship between the human sitter or animal subject, and the natural or manmade landscape. As an artist who is persuaded by the enduring potential of pictorial realist style, my works are meant to appear as a plausible viewing experience—a resonant illusion achieved through a painstaking descriptive technique of skillfully applying to paper, multiple layers of marks and lines in pastel and charcoal. My practice also includes creating more rapidly conceived drawings, often drawn from the live nude or draped model, continuing a Fine Art tradition dating back to the humanist, classical revival of the European Renaissance. These works may either serve as preliminary investigations for future, more complex works, or remain “autonomous” explorations in their own right.