Artist’s Statement

 What appeals to me about painting is the combining of disparate elements into a unified whole much like the approach of a choreographer or a composer.  As a lifelong musician, I am very interested in the rhythmic patterns that the formal elements of painting create.

Working with the subject matter of landscapes and musical instruments allows me to deal with the universal and the highly personal.  The landscape paintings represent the place of my youth- Aiken County, SC, and working with musical instruments such as banjos allows me to combine a personal rhythm with a Southern icon.  In such work I reinterpret the commonplace and quilt together fragments from a uniquely American mythology, choreographing and orchestrating pop-cultural, Southern vernacular works of rhythmic painting.