Artist's Statement
My goal in painting is to lift myself up to the beauty in life and magnify that beauty so that others will notice it. When I paint I get into a state known as flow. Flow breaks stress better than anything else. For me it is strong enough that I forget everything else including time and space. Forgetting everything is one reason that I almost topple over backward at times as I am staring at a painting. I feel opened up to everything in the universe. The experience of art is, for me, transcendent. Beauty...more
