I believe in the combative, remedial, and spiritual nature of art. I began drawing and painting at a young age as a form of personal therapy. It was an outlet that gave me a sense of purpose, freedom, and recognition that I had never experienced. It was when I began to learn about history and culture I realized that I could aid others through my work. Continuous themes throughout my art includes humanism, nature, and biographical narrations. These subjects allow me to offer the sublime, spiritual experience of art to the viewer. I also challenge traditional forms for beauty, celebrate the odd, unique, sometimes grotesque, and confront contemporary human conditioning. My mixed media acrylic painting "You are what eat" confronts the viewer with an expressive representation of the human form constructed using collected packages, labels, and garbage from mass produced commercial foods. Demonstrating the lack of nutrition, self- destruction, and mutilation of the body because of a commercial diet. The three paneled painting is stylized to repulse the viewer emphasizing skin folds, tinting, cracking, and bruising of the skin through dramatic colors, and layering of paper to mimic skin.     

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I predominately work within the mediums of drawing and painting, but have always enjoyed experimentation and using unconventional materials when appropriate. These materials include acrylic paint, oil paint, ink, and charcoal, but I am also evolving into installation and performance art. My process has always included collecting and researching art theory and images to have a clear and concise foundation for my work.  I also believe strongly in the notion of chance, which allows the materials that I work with to formulate the aesthetics of the piece.  I enjoy learning and studying traditional art but also seek to conjoin tradition with my own contemporary style. 

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My work creates a powerful, empathetic viewpoint through both subject matter and my raw and bold approach to art.  "Confessions" use collage and acrylic paint to describe heart break. The central female being consumed, and compressed by words of the occurrence crushing down on her. The disheveled styled designed to express the discomfort of the event. I value myself as an expressionist because my work illustrates internal ideals and experiences, and externally represents them through my work. I look to narrate stories, and to create personal, and emotional response with which the viewer can empathize.