ARTIST STATEMENT
I approach all my work with two things in mind. One, to evoke the strongest emotional response I can and two, to learn from every project I take or work on. I hope I never just knock out a piece but strive to find the uniqueness in the subject and express that in an exceptional way, whether it is a portrait or a still life or a landscape. Every subject has a soul and it is that capture I look for. I work every day and to stay sharp I have three or four projects going at the same time. Generally my main easel is holding down a commissioned work then I have three other work stations for exhibition work, shows, and just something to do that is out of my comfort zone.
I believe in the words of James McNeil Whistler that art should be for arts sake and yet I cannot fully forget that as an individual my art is a point of view of my life and life in general and as Oscar Wilde said " We look at mirrors to see ourselves but we look at art to see our souls". My art therefore must strive to appeal to a viewers sense of beauty, wonder and emotion at the same time.
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