Artist's Statement
My focus in the communication and visual arts is representational realism, and my subject matter. Currently ranges from contemporary urban-scapes to still life, and portraiture. My training has grounded me years of classical oil techniques, a refinement, which I am capable of incorporating into any digitally created subject matter. I can move effortlessly from painting traditional to modern subjects to creating compositions in digital format that are of interest in many demographic areas. In 2003 I began the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts In Philadelphia, PA while continuing my work with my mentor Garin Baker - Carriage House Art
Studios
In 2004 I was please to accept an award of excellence from VSA ARTS and Volkswagon at the Rayburn House on Capital Hill and honored to have that same work on exhibit at the S. Dillon Ripley Center Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC During the course of my career I have had many pieces purchased into private collections including the private collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
In 2010 I began to bring 215 Arts Incubator of Philadelphia aka 215 Arts from my pallet to canvas and by the end of 2012 hope to bring it into reality.
I have been painting and drawing from life since I was 15 years old. We all have a plan for our life given to us to follow each day, but more important it is what we do with the plan we give to ourselves, our own self discipline, our own sense and understanding of being focused to plan and organize and implement in an organized successful creative manner. In the later part of my training I began collaborations by working on several public space murals. This experience in teamwork offered me an artistic perspective of the community with in a community, composition within a composition. It fostered within me a greater understating of how my part and that of others is an important to the whole. To me understanding collaboration is like understanding "public art" art that which assumes a broader role in public life, requiring collaborative input and participation vs. "art in public spaces" which transports the art studio to a public place.