“Do not despise matter, for it is not despicable. God has made nothing despicable.” St. John of Damascus.
My art is a meditation on the good of the material world. This material world is both natural and human made. To view or observe is not a passive process but a way of interacting with the material world, and with artwork.
I have a magpie approach to art. I see something I find interesting and combine it with images that are interesting or important to me, playing with shapes, colors and patterns. My work is a pastiche in that I pull my visual vocabulary from a wide variety of sources, decorative and fiber crafts, medieval art, Byzantine icons, the Fauvists, the Pattern and Decoration movement, Ethiopian sacred art. I like to make my paintings beautiful and a sensual experience but also awkward and interesting.
