Artist’s Statement

I paint because it lets me vent the buildup of emotions in my heart, head and soul. I need to paint. If I don’t, I find myself in a backlog of emotions and can’t seem to vent them to anyone sufficiently. I speak a language of images in my artwork. I think in images on a daily basis. Some people find resonance in my art because of the human condition, we all have feelings, and we all need someone to just “Get It”.

I paint because it’s the best way that I’ve found to share what is on my mind. Not details, that’s what best friends are for, but for the raw gut emotions and reactions that my experiences bring. My life is full of emotions, and to save myself from drowning in them, I put them into paintings, then I can let them go and move on. It’s the only way I’ve found to explain the deepest parts of my heart.

I admire those that open up their innermost thoughts and emotions to the outside world. They seem to say, “Here I am. I’m vulnerable.”

Allowing myself to be vulnerable and drop my armor is very hard for me. Allowing people to see the “real me” terrifies me, so I push that stumbling block with my art. I make myself open to those that see my art, even creating a web site devoted to it, showing the general public and people that have never even met me who I really am.

I will always paint. I choose now to bring it to you, in the hopes that you will see what I’m trying to express, that maybe something in you resonates with it and me. I don’t want to be alone. No one does. I need to know that there are people out there that really do “Get it.”