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Using egg tempera and silverpoint, I make paintings and drawings that combine my strongest creative urges: drawing and storytelling. Always a compulsive mark maker, I make thousands of marks to build form, tone and atmosphere. Some of my narratives come from memories or dreams. Others appear in my mind with no clue to their origin. For the past several years, I have been exploring the intersection of humans and the natural world.
Even though the ideas for my works usually arrive in a flash of insight, their execution is far from spontaneous. I begin with many drawings, sketches, and doodles. I usually hire models to pose and draw them from life or take photographs.
Watching the progress of an egg tempera painting is like watching a Polaroid photo develop in extremely slow motion. At some point along the way, I relinquish control and trust the process. Because my use of color is intuitive, I never really know where the paint will take me and am frequently surprised at the end. I hope you will be, too.