Nothing that’s alive holds still. Life is in motion and our seeing is always fragmented, never complete.
I want to paint life
the way I see it. My goal as a
painter is not to “freeze” a moment. I want to bring life and breath into an
image. For me, a good painting keeps opening up. It involves the viewer by
letting the eyes do some of the work.
Painting is something
I do with my body, and it shows. I paint with energy and I don’t try to hide
that. You can see how the brush moves and how the paint was put on and scraped
off. Painting, like life, is messy.
I usually paint the human
body. I find the human form both irresistible and impossible to paint. And so
every day I struggle to respond to its exuberant wild skittishness, its burden
of grief and praise, its extravagant, quivering life.
