I use paint and various drawing media to investigate my own personal mark-making in the fertile area between sophistication and childishness. While traces of the figurative and landscape paintings I’ve previously done linger on in my work, I’m currently more focused on how the formal elements create meaning in a picture. I am affected by the pictures made by children and non-artists, particularly the way in which some of them combine a deep earnesty with an unfettered celebration of nonsense.
My paintings represent the accumulation of many simple actions and reactions that hopefully add up the same sort of earnest expression that I admire. I believe the movement of the hand has privileged access to the mind, and much of the content in my paintings emerges from and speaks to that part of our ‘pre-language’ consciousness.