My work with the figure is crucial to all aspects of my work. Observational figure drawing and painting informs the abstract dreamscapes that are my larger paintings. As an academic exercise, observational figure drawing is unparalleled. If you can draw the figure, you can draw anything. Over the years my work with the figure has shifted slightly. When I began, I was very much concerned with capturing an atmosphere and creating an accurate rendering of the scene.

Today, that element is still a part of what I do but rather than capturing an atmosphere, I seek to create one. Through expressionistic rendering and mannered figures, I seek to imply a sort of psychological “narrative” within the image. These “narrative” works are very much about transcendence, eroticism, impermanence, and the ways they interrelate and relate to, the universal human experience. We are all a body; a conscious bag of flesh. The body speaks to everyone.
 
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