Artist Statement

I experience immediate gratification from creating art. That feeling along with a twist of fate is surely the reason I became an artist. When I was ten, my family moved to a very small town in the Texas Panhandle where I had the good fortune of moving in across the street from a family of artists. One Sunday afternoon I crossed the dusty street and was invited to "play in the mud". They dropped a hunk of red clay in front of me, and without hesitation I sculpted the bust of man. After that, art supplies and two meals a day awaited me across the street until I graduated from high school.

I then took my passion for creating to the decorative arts industry where I spent fifteen years working with the leading interior designers. I explored different mediums and began painting on a larger scale with murals and trompe l'oeil. In 2001 I continued to reach deeper within myself to imagine the world and my art in a hyper realistic, slightly surreal style. I was launched into what was a perfect fit between my minds eye and the canvas, and I created enough to produce my first show, which was held in Dallas at the Boyd Gallery. I continued trying to produce art and work within the design industry until the summer of 2006 when I made the professional decision to pursue my artistic career full time. Since, my style has continued to veer toward the surreal. I am producing paintings and sculptural collage works that I describe as organic surrealism. I am combining the natural with the artificial to create synthetic harmony.