To create truly communicative abstract art has been a collaboration of many years between myself and that part of the outside world that harbors our collective emotional intelligence. Abstract art is powerful in its ability to communicate universally by transcending cultural boundaries and pulling the heart out of the voyeur and up to a level of emotional awareness akin to a spiritual experience.

          Since attaining my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University in 1997, I have spent the last decade traveling profusely and painting prolifically in an effort to develop my understanding of people, nature and culture. These years allowed me to be “lost”, which heightened all of my senses and brought my language of abstraction to the surface.

          As the complexity of one’s visual memory loses its detail, the elements of line, color and shape become dominant. By cutting lines and forms through layers of paint, drawings and printed images, I am re-establishing the weight of emotion that lies beneath the surface of our own daily routine. My motifs represent a skeletal mapping of life’s emotional tendencies, be it pure joy or sadness, there is a map of the universal heart.

          In recent years, my work has been placed in the permanent collection at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Cancer Center, shown in five solo exhibitions, and exhibited in numerous other shows around New England and New York City. I am pleased to have received excellent reviews in such publications as Art New England as well as many others.

          My greatest influences have been Constantin Brancusi, Georgia O’Keefe, Paul Klee and Joseph Cornell for the way in which they lived their art, Herman Hesse and Paulo Coehlo for their words and vision, and the abstract expressionists for their strength.