With diverse influences that include cubism, surrealism and the Mexican muralists, my oil paintings are a series of luminously colored pictorial spaces that are consequent of personal experience as filtered through dreams, visions and illusions. The images of anonymous figures in common settings depict ritual happening combined with feelings of sexual tension that are woven in with a quiet elegant motion.

Each canvas is a merging of fact and fantasy that brings about the effect of a window to Renaissance like surroundings that are an amalgamation of animated yet mysterious places. Many of the objects and figures are structured, ordered and linear yet they create elements that have references to the mystical and spiritual, using multiple perspective and intense color to produce an elated mood. I have developed an assortment of visual symbols in an effort to pare cultural traditions and rituals to their essence and intensify the relationships between my subjects. My tools may be color, line and composition but the imagery is formed through the visceral process of thought.