Artist Statement
Monsters, dream-like landscapes, people and ideas, both preposterous and shockingly real, fill the mythological world I invented to explain the unexplainable.
I draw in black ink on paper when I want to feel confident. When adventure calls, I paint or work with a rainbow of colors far beyond my skill and training. And when I need to feel at home, I retreat to my studio, filled with wood and tools and childhood memories of my father's sawmill, across the Atlantic.
Sculptures in the shape of objects from daily life, paintings on wooden panels woven together and drawings of unknown origins, tell the stories of my everyday.
Each piece is a reminder that the line dividing the ordinary and extraordinary is impossibly fine. That logic and reason are within our grasp one moment and millions of miles away the next.