About

I have always found beauty in the mechanical form and its connection to the human system. The mechanism of the organic. Machines, diagrams, schematics all entrance and confound me at the same time. While I cannot comprehend their inner workings, I find an inherent beauty in their structure. The shapes that I find underneath the skin and fabric of the world around me, that infrastructure is the subject matter of my work.

Throughout my career as a visual artist I have primarily worked with acrylics, watercolor and gouache. Over the past couple of years however I began to explore the use of digital media, working with Photoshop as my painting method. All of the prints shown here began as a traditional drawing using various inks on 300# hot pressed watercolor paper. Those drawings were then scanned and painted digitally, combining traditional and digital media (tradigital).

Initially the prints were the intended end product of the drawings, but as I began to consider expanding my ideas from 2D to 3D I turned to a medium that I felt comfortable yet challenged working with; wood. Creating, cutting, fitting, gluing and nailing the individual elements to form each sculpt engages me in a process that, in my mind at least, comfortably aligns me with my vision. The light catching the various elevations of each sculpt help to define their unique forms. Flat colors can enhance the forms and their light catching abilities while those sculpts left in their natural state may better describe the process and structure of each.

Although my subject-matter may look mechanical and therefore developed and planned, it is quite the opposite being very spontaneous. Each line and shape is a reaction to what came before it, developing the composition as it moves forward. Inspiration comes from both organic and inorganic sources. The human figure as well as nature and machine-made elements give rise to my work. The construction and deconstruction of their forms and inner workings as imagined by me are the images that emerge.

These inkjet prints are made on acid free, archival grade Polar Matte or Epson Enhanced Matte papers. Some prints have been matted and framed in a traditional fashion but I have also mounted several on handmade cradled panels (1/4” birch plywood on a mitered 1”x2” frame) using a combination of Liquitex Satin Varnish and Golden Gloss Medium and then varnished with the Satin Varnish alone which protects the surface as well as protecting against UV damage.

The sculptures are constructed using a variety of sustainable woods such as poplar, pine, and oak. The wall relief sculpts rise off the surface of a sturdy cradled panel.