My motivations
Sculpting
Sculpting
The artist’s life is a monastic life. But it is a life of discovery and exploration. In painting and sculpting I am both discovering something about myself, how I perceive and express those perceptions, and something about the individual, what the person in the portrait or the animal represented in the sculpture has revealed to me. I am i
The artist’s life is a monastic life. But it is a life of discovery and exploration. In painting and sculpting I am both discovering something about myself, how I perceive and express those perceptions, and something about the individual, what the person in the portrait or the animal represented in the sculpture has revealed to me. I am in the midst of exploring metal as a medium that exists in the boundary between the refined and unrefined, the smooth and the jagged, the colorful and the colorless to create a personality, a story. The animals I sculpt recently have metal exposed while in the painting the metal is often hidden under layers of paint and the visual details.
Sculpting
Sculpting
Sculpting
I’ve been sculpting for over 20 years and am still exploring the possibilities of this unusual sculpting material. Polymer clay always surprises me with its beautiful colors and flexibility in application.
Painting
Sculpting
Painting
Painting came into my life 11 years ago like a tsunami. I quickly found a focus—portraiture. Even though painting runs in my family, every time I pick up a brush I find it impossibly challenging and impossibly exciting.