Bio

Since as early as I can remember, I’ve always drawn, colored, and painted. I would draw and go on imaginary adventures and lose track of time. As a teen I used my creativity in graffiti and attended a graphic art high school, focusing on screen printing. Then as a young adult moving to Paris, France for structured training and learning. My work uses aspects of figurative, abstract, and realism. I like to move between each to formulate my style. To this end I paint with numerous mediums in an alla pri- ma style. In a spontaneous and physical way, moving back and forth across the painting surface, mak- ing marks. I start by introducing color, shapes or line, then respond to their development. I move these elements around, adding and removing paint in multiple layers. The work pushes and pulls it- self to completion sometime leaving a message and sometimes leaving a symbol.
The paintings are conjured in a search for truth. From subtle conversations or interactions, I'm moved to paint. The paint is applied and constructed heavily like a sculpture on the canvas' surface. The paintings mix a feeling of the ancient with the contemporary. The additive and subtractive nature of the process of their creation furthers this quality. The paintings present as realistic, abstract, figu- rative, and conceptual. They are sending a message of humanity.