Artist's Statement

In an age where the avant-garde has convinced itself that we exist in an age that is uniquely bleak, art that does not confront the apocalypse is seen as evasive. Tradition is mined for allusions and references, and as a source of irony. In the prevalent modern dogma, beauty has been criminalized, thus denying contemporary painters of the language of hope.

This work is entirely personal in character. I have never sought to identify with the academic intellectual modernism currently in vogue.

I believe that art is not just a language for the display of the artist's inner sense of angst or irony. That artistic creation can be an act of hope, and that tradition is inventiveness grounded in an inherited language.