SERIES I :

Over a decade ago I was enchanted by a 16th century image of Henry VIII's fourth wife Anne de Cleves. The original artwork was a meticulous watercolor painted on parchment paper by Hans Holbein The Younger. Upon close inspection it appeared that the very minute, realistic details of this painting were actually a culmination of hundreds of calculated abstractions.

This peaked my curiosity and posed a question... could abstract fragments themselves hold any merit outside the context of a single painting? With irony as my muse I set off to investigate further. What began as a color study resulted in hundreds of textured swatches, then evolved into individual paintings and finally into an assemblage - in effect a deconstruction and reconstruction of Holbein's original work.

The same artistic process is the underlying crux of my work today. Each series begins with inspiration often found in nature, then evolves into a series of abstract paintings which are ultimately arranged into an architectural installation.

Rather than paint to create a single image my intention is to create a collection of interrelating abstractions that function together as a form of...organized chaos.