Artist's StatementAs an artist I have always felt that it is my purpose to show the world in a unique perspective. In doing so, transport them to a different world that almost doesn't seem like ours. I have always been a firm believer in the fact that art doesn’t always have to be doom and gloom. In high school I painted this way and I realized that that simply isn’t me. It forced myself and my artwork down a dark path that actually made me want to stop creating art all together, but then I realized what I was missing. I found my muse again from a book called "I’ll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson, the way one of the main characters thought brought back out the painter inside me, and helped me create a new outlook on my work.
I think that you can create deeply meaningful work that touches on intense topics that also can be beautiful and still hold a positive side to them. So I guess one of my main outlooks as an artist is to paint things that have meaning and show the truth but also still have the ability to make people happy and bring people up instead of tearing them down I do this by both taking more ordinary things and making them extraordinary in their own way, and by painting things that people wouldn't normally look at. Much like the finger painter Iris Scotts outlook on art. I make what I make because of the urge inside of me to create and tell my story which I think is something many other artists relate to. I have lived a very unique life even though on the outside it seems ordinary also, my paintings just like myself you will notice something new every time you look at it because they are unified yet diverse. My work will be remembered for its use of color and uniqueness. The ordinary things I paint always end up with hidden secrets inside though they seem ordinary they usually have something significantly more to say if you listen. Contact me |