a short biography

I live on the coast of British Columbia. The Italian painter Zurbaran was my favorite artist as a child, I'm not sure why- the mystery maybe? I started painting later in life out of curiosity. I learned painting by studying how others did it, artists from the past and present. I really admire Gauguin, Bonnard, Diebenkorn, and Klimt. Anyway, I decided to quit my corporate job and ended up being a poor artist.

artist statement

2024

I'm interested in light. Can I get it in paint? All the shapes and sun effects are dazzling. I also love the landscape where I live, the architecture and neighborhoods that convey a certain emotion - freedom, culture, inviting places I want to be in, maybe far away places.

I've been thinking about light through color lately, it seems more truthful.

And of course there is water which is probably the most interesting and always excites me- how the light looks inside the water and waves, how it moves, and how it creates depth and mysterious things. I spend much of my summer swimming in the ocean next to my house and this is where I get so many ideas about light and water.

I like to be beside the thing I'm painting, its the translation of the objects that I like. And then there's the transformation that is interesting too, the abstraction of it. How do I make it mine?

Often what I like to paint lasts only a few minutes, so it's difficult to approach the thing intellectually. But later I will come back to the painting in a slower way and develop it further.