For more than three decades, my approach to painting was to represent a life in a portrait. I didn't want to represent just the subject's likeness, but incorporate their style, their personality, their surroundings, and even their energy.  For the most part, these concepts were represented by pose, color, lighting and objects included in the painting -- typical of most representational portrait work, right?
Interestingly, In the process of getting my Masters (Fine Art), I explored more conceptual processes and completely changed the way I approach a painting-- that is what you see today.

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I primarily work in oil representing the entanglements of memories, places, subjects and emotions, and all of their simultaneous existence, by weaving them together.  The visual image of a landscape is physically woven with the image of my subject and then translated onto the panel through multiple layers. Visually, they are meant to break the dimensions where they are in both the painting's and the viewers' energy at the same time. 

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I imagine myself standing looking out a window at the cold, snowy Rockies while remembering the warm sunshine and perfectly clear, black-blue water of the Baltic. In that moment, I am in both places at the same time and experiencing both equally.  The air is different, the sounds and smells as well, but the senses are all engaged. That quantum mixing of energies -- their entanglement -- is what my work represents. Memories woven with experiences, past, present and future. The actions of one always effects and affects simultaneously in ways that are seen and unseen.

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