ARTIST

A RESTLESS SPIRIT FROM THE BEGINNING, BORN IN LONDON TO A VERY YOUNG BRITISH MOTHER AND A FATHER WHOSE ROOTS REMAIN A MYSTERY…SO THE JOURNEY OF MOTHER AND CHILD BEGAN, AND THEIR TRAVELS WOULD RIVAL A GYPSIES JOURNAL. TRAVERSING THE MID-CENTURY 1950’S LANDSCAPE REINFORCED AN ALREADY OPEN AND CREATIVE MIND IN THE ARTIST TO BE. NEW PEOPLE, NEW LANDSCAPES, NEW SOCIAL ISSUES, ALL KEENLY OBSERVED AND COMMITTED TO MEMORY.

DID WELL IN SCHOOL BUT WAS DISINTERESTED, WORKED HARD AT EVERY JOB BUT MOVED ON QUICKLY. SAVORED PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS BUT CHERISHED FEW AS MEANINGFUL. SO…..FIVE COUNTRIES, FORTY-EIGHT STATES, FORTY-TWO JOBS AND THIRTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, THE ARTIST TRAPPED INSIDE AN ENGINEERS BODY EMERGED. WITH RECKLESS ABANDON AND NO FORMAL ART TRAINING, THE MEDIUMS OF GLASS, STONE AND STEEL WERE DEVOURED, ANALYZED AND REVISITED, UNTIL NO LONGER A CHALLENGE. THE SCULPUTURE WAS ABANDONED, BUT FROM ITS DEMISE A STRONG SENSE OF COMPOSITION EMERGED; WHICH BECAME THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER INLIFE: PAINTING.

IT IS THE ARTIST’S OPINION THAT ABSTRACT PAINTING IS THE “SOUL” OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION. IT IS ALSO THE ARTISTS OPINION THAT LIFE MUST BE LIVED, MUST BE ATTACKED VORACIOUSLY FROM EVERY ANGLE. IT MUST BE ABSORBED AND DIGESTED AND REJECTED. IT IS THIS STRUGGLE IN LIFE (LOVE, PASSION, REGRET, DISAPPOINTMENT, FAILURE) THAT FUELS AND DIRECTS ALL CREATIVE ANDEAVORS. YOU CANNOT PAINT WITHOUT NATURE. COLOR MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT ANGER AND PASSION. YOU NEED DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND DOUBT AND, FINALLY, THE STRENGTH TO OVERCOME THEM ALL AND EXPRESS THE EMOTIONS WITHIN!!!!!!

THE CONFLUENCE OF THESE LIFE FORCES BECOMES A WORK ON CANVAS

MAJOR INFLUENCES: DALI POLLACK, ROTHCO, O. KEEFE, MODIGLIANI, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, WATER, URBAN DECAY AND THE STRUGGLE WITHIN.

THE ARTIST IS PROLIFIC AND WIDELY COLLECTED. THE PAINT IS HARDLY DRY ON HIS FAST SELLING WORKS.