Artist StatementI watch birds. Envy their wings. Wish for the sky.
My most recent works are the visual transformations and interpretations of my emotions and thoughts. I have found great healing power, solace and comfort in the art I create. Without art in my life I am not sure how I would manage. I am ever so grateful of the talent I have been blessed with and what I am able to do with this talent.
My artwork is heavily influenced by my love for horses. Horses have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Being the first word I ever said the horse also became the first image I tried to capture as a young budding artist. I drew horses on everything and anything, sometimes much to my parents dismay. The horse has become the most influential instrument that drives my create passion.
I seek to capture and show my viewers the emotional connection I share with these spectacular creatures. I respond to the effect of my surroundings; my environment. I want to explore the way my subject matter is filling a given space. I pay attention to the way light and shadow work together cohesively to bring depth, wholeness, and bring to life the colors and shapes within the pieces I create. When I am creating a work of art, whether it be a painting or a photograph I am always exploring ways to communicate the awe and humility that I feel when inspired to creatively capture what I see before me.
My style is the way I perceive the world around me and the way I use my pencils, paints, and or camera to present that vision. My colored pencil drawings build form in a realistic way that quite often generates an emotional response in the viewer. I use value to model forms and color to locate them in the space. I don’t like to rely on formulas and technological methods to create a work; instead I like to rely on my emotion, my heart, and explorations of various processes, which are sometimes the result of a happy accidents or “self-discovery”.
I will use whatever method I can to achieve exactly what it is I am looking for. Although I am not cultivating a trademark style to my work, my body of artworks, whether they be paintings, drawings, or photographs clearly are recognizable as my works of art. As I continue to evolve as an artist, I see my work becoming more expressive, more refined, and more joyfully involved in exploring the ways to create a connection with my viewers that leaves them breathless.
I can feel my wings growing the more I dream...