When creating my figurative art, I work both 2 dimensionally and 3 dimensionally.  I start by looking inward to quiet my thoughts.  In the calm, I feel an overwhelming sense of oneness with my work.  Intuitively, my art work shows me what it needs and I’ve learned to listen, trust and have faith in my gut instincts.

My organic process has a progression of many layers and transformations.  I love painting and working with oils.  My work distorts the figure for a strong emotional and visual impact.  Combining human and animal forms is mythical and part of the human psyche both past and present.  My winged creatures are personal guardians that protect me, but create obstacles for me to overcome.  Changes have occurred within my art work because of my life experiences.  My life challenges have taught me to embrace the theatrical, celebratory and macabre.  I'm inspired and influenced by many festivals such as, Mardi Gras, Day of the Dead and Carnival.

Sometime my painting comes off the wall and stands with me on the floor.  Working in sculpture, I use recycled plastic, fiberglass, rubber, mannequin parts, toys and found objects to create my figurative art work.  After the figures are assembled, I partially wrap them to create an outer layer of skin.  I then prepare and paint the surface of my figures as if they were a stretched canvas.  By altering reclaimed materials and painting in oils, I give the surface a life all its own.  I transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.  My painting and sculpture creates narrative figures that are contradictory and paradoxical.  I bring my figures to life by combining their dualities such as, living life in decay, finding humor in fear, building strength in vulnerability and keeping hope in loss.

I invite the viewer to see my work as part of a much larger story.  I love working figuratively and metaphorically to connect my art work to a universal human consciousness.  All beings require psychological, physical and emotional support to build a life worth living.  The mind, body and spirit depend on each other to develop fully.  Life requires help in order to achieve its potential, but too often goes without.  As a result, I create figures sympathetic to the human condition.  

On the surface my art work is fantastical, but underneath that exist a deeper meaning.  I bring to my work a compassion and empathy for the struggles in life.  I hope to convey that knowledge is power, ignorance is fear and laughter the best medicine.  Ultimately, humanity will decide the world's fate and how we all live together on this planet.  As for me, my art represents the inescapable flaws of human nature and our ability to compensate or overcome them.  My art work is how I see the world.