My work explores the relationship between abstract expression and subjective reality. With influences as diverse as Richard Pousette-Dart and Hildegard de Bingen, new tensions are crafted from infectious reality and a personal symbolic discourse.

In my younger days as an artist, I completed a short series of stained glass autonomous works entitled Microscopic Fear. I did 3 circular pieces: one of lung cancer, one of breast cancer and one of AIDS. Re-visiting within an analogous thread, I am exploring the pandemic upon us in our current world, the Coronavirus.

Several years ago I began an artistic practice of graphite drawing on top of textured-layered oil painted surfaces. Many of these intuitive explorations have been abstract expressive, but these search within my thought upon this pandemic. These paintings/drawings associate to a theophany and love of God, with visible prayer for others, as well as myself. Prayer being conversation and intercession with the Divine has many varied forms and senses of spirituality. Identifying these as prayer paintings shares my visual contemplation of these intercessory conversations. The underlying of chaos and dichotomy of gentleness is a reaction to life, death and manifestation of the Spirit.