My work explores the link between archaeology and history. What is found when humans go looking for their past and/or create a prescience to be examined by future generations, both public and private?

From man's earliest days he has felt the need to create and record his life through artistic expression. When humans ask existential questions about their time on earth, something needs to be said about the aspect of their purpose for being. These paintings are an exposition of myself as an artist. Furthermore, in creating art it becomes communication. The viewer then enters a dialogue that links them to their own interior emotions, thus creating the bond which I believe  to be arts purpose.

My creative perceptions are expressed in naturalistic formations reminiscent of earth, water and sky which remain throughout time. They are combined with inspirations from flora which do not survive to be found in the detritus of a civilization's past, most floral lifespan being limited to less than a human lifespan. The ancient human quest to express ourselves through decorative pattern and color inspired by our environment is a thread which repeatedly evidences itself through art;  in my case, a vanishing landscape of flora and fauna. We can been seen as part of a continuum of experiences, Earth's transformation and the journey of humans, side by side. Fossils are windows from the past, harbingers of the future. We will all be part of a cycle of extinction and rebirth.

I feel that art is a way to express the intangible, invisible contents of the psyche. These paintings explore the mind/body connection and its link to external stimulus that precedes the  inspiration for art and the need to create.

The work is heterogeneous in nature. In combining acrylics, oils, nail enamels and pen and ink,  I am referencing my own artistic history. In removing the nail enamels from their original context

I have "dematerialized"  the medium to recreate them as a new format. The materials are not asserting their separate identities, they are coming together to create a new unified whole. Some of the most notable aspects of my work ethic are that the work,  regardless of the initial intent, reveals itself in the process. This  makes the resulting product a completely spontaneous examination of the creative process.

My work has roots in Post War Organic Modernism in its aesthetic of free and fluid form. There are also cultural references to the value of metals as currency and adornment (jewelry),  and also aspects of ornamental design which have existed in every culture throughout the history of man.