Artist Statement

My work as an artist is to live as an intentional observer in the world and strive to become a more aware and conscious thinker. Remaining attentive and sensible to unique and ephemeral light contrasts allows me to generate flexibility, to let go of attachments, and to change in the inner world first and the outer world second.

Working with acrylics, pencils, mixed media, and other techniques, my imagery plays freely with color, light and shadow and resources form a two-step process which starts with the external light effect and continues with an internal color awareness process in my mind, resonating with Paul Klee’s quote: ‘Art does not represent the visual world, it makes things visible.’

In my daily walks I am in constant search of magical effects where sunlight interacts with translucent to opaque organic structures. Sometimes it’s the light and the shadow; other times it’s the texture and the repetition. From this, internally, I align with neuroscientist Semir Zeki when he says: “The function of art and the function of the brain are one and the same: looking for consistencies and essences” My paintings are the result of such a continuous mental search for consistencies and essences.