There are about 6.5 billion people living on this planet, many will leave behind only the equivalent of footprints in the sand. In all of recorded history, artists have, with varying success and longevity, expressed and represented the time in which they lived. I like having the opportunity to do the same.

As a person (and artist) I believe that most of us don't always end up where we thought we might, or maybe it isn't that, but instead that many actually don't think they will ever actually end up where they are supposed to be-but do. I think that is equally true in life, a single painting or maybe even in a lifetime of work.

I find painting personally resonant and my sources of motivation and stimulus vary but the process remains certain and commonplace. It begins with my mind twitching to express some lingering fixation.

That aside, artists speaking about themselves, their influences and ultimately their art, are almost universally dull but it remains an expectation and an unfortunate necessity so, in spite of my reluctance, I will.

My influences include conscious and subconscious recognition and layering of momentary impulses with lifelong observation and experiences. I am interested in commenting on the powerful or meaningless and sometimes heroic or iconic images from the media, mass communication and the world around us; many of which naturally impact and are reinterpreted in the development of my organically derived compositions. Some of my recent conceptual work comments on and is critical of the hypocrisy of society; particularly the economic, religious and political shortcomings of the society and/or of its leaders.

My palette evolves from instinctive, visceral and personally ingrained aesthetic choices.