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Primary statement:
Visual art (and the artists who create it) should be seen and not heard.

Secondary (if contradictory) statement of reassurance that it's okay to look:
My work is as much about an interplay of the flat painting surface with the illusion of three dimensional space as it is about the sensual beauty of the female form. Background and foreground trade places to challenge the viewer's preconceptions of where space should begin and end. Pictorial composition encompasses both time and three apparent spatial dimensions, as the viewer's eye is allowed to follow its natural course through various planes of focus. The figures themselves are lifelike, sumptuous and beautiful, sometimes playful, at ease with themselves and at home in their space, happily oblivious to the artistic and compositional machinations at work around them. Nudes are presented straightforwardly, neither shocking nor coy. The apparent simplicity of some of the images belies subtle levels of complexity that linger on the visual palate. A convincing illusion is created of a world which invites the viewer to enter, spend some time, look around, discover things not seen at first glance. In this kind of visual journey, one discovers that art can be stimulating rather than pedantic, enriching rather than morbid, transporting rather than reporting.

The "Live Canvas" paintings are each made from a single continuous canvas surface wrinkled/stretched/wrapped/glued to a wood frame. In these works, the canvas abandons its traditional role as a passive flat surface for the application of pigment; it comes "alive" and boldly competes for status as a medium in its own right. The tension between order and chaos is paramount.

A Grander Odalisque

©2006
oil on canvas
91.5cm x 137.2cm

Playing the Queen of Hats

©2007
oil on canvas
91.5cm x 137.2cm

Opalesque

©2006
pastel on paper
81.3cm x 101.6cm

Sitting on Top of the World

©2006
pastel on paper
101.6cm x 76.2cm

The Mirror in Mondian's Garden

©2005
oil on canvas
76.2cm x 83,8cm

Splendor in the Grass

©2005
oil on canvas
65.6cm x 114.3cm

Stepping In

©2005
pastel on paper
91.4cm x 61cm

Live Canvas No. 15: Surface Resumes at The Purple Onion (Don't Panic)

©2008
oil, acrylic & canvas
76.2cm x 55.9cm x 7.6cm