Daily life is full of monotonous repetition, from waking up to the alarm, to brushing our teeth, to turning on the car ignition, to driving to work, to turning on the computer and going through the daily email check - reply - delete…

In between all of these repetitious, almost reflexive actions/behaviors, we have this undulating flow of relationships to family, friends, co-workers; thought processes of hopes, dreams, future events, regrets; those things that propel us forward to the next big thing or staying where we are, content or lazy; all buffered by our feelings about ourselves, the world around us and the people we interact with, leading to the never ending questions of “Who Am I?” “What is my purpose in life” “What will happen when I die?”

These layers of life are what I am illustrating through my paintings.  All of my current work uses repetition as a rhythm and a play between worlds of color, movement, and shapes. I build layers that intermingle creating a subtext for those layers of life. In contrast to the more organic layers, there will usually be a repetitious division of space, through the structure of the square or rectangle.  This structure will create a pattern like syncopation.  But, unlike most patterns, the elements are not all the same. Like life, you never know what will happen next and that is how I paint.  I begin with a gestural motion, which is usually a thinner layer of paint.  The layer of paint that comes next reacts to the layer that came before.  The third layer may interchange between the first two layers creating a dynamic interest between surface and viewer. And so is life, seeming to be linear in content but obviously more cyclical, alternating, flowing, and random.