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I have a fascination with subtext. With reading between the lines. Tuning in to the unspoken. Mine are portraits of imagined selves, damaged and passionate and hidden selves. Expressions from a moment thought private, unobserved, when the guard is down. A glimpse of the genuine, before the retreat. Before the walls go back up.

I am guided in my explorations by the great painters of the Classical periods; painters of the dramatic and ecstatic, inspiring and fearless in their revelation of the human condition. Pushing past context, I seek out the souls that populate their paintings. Here are complex expressions, hidden agendas, innuendos, and faces stripped of artifice, laid bare by ecstasy.

In the alchemy I attempt, I lift these souls out of their place and time and take them as my models, paring down their faces to get at some “essential” expression. I listen carefully and translate, guided by them to revelation. Sometimes there is an amplification of what may already be present, sometimes a glimpse into a possible hidden nature is revealed, and sometimes -- something completely new is unlocked. When my contribution is made and the viewer stands before them the alchemy continues. Eyes meet. Something is familiar, remembered. Connections are triggered and in the viewing, the transformation gels, complete - yet different each time for each new viewer.

CHALLENGE

2004
Casein on muslin
188X91.4

PACE (peace)

2005
Casein on muslin
223.5x94

DISPOSITION

2006
Casein on muslin
190x76

FOUR STUDIES

2006
Casein on muslin
30.5x30.5 each

LIKE MIND

2005
Casein on Muslin
122x198

HOLY NIGHT

2006
Casein on Muslin
137.2x188