My entire life I felt truly blessed to have grown up on a farm on the eastern shore. This unique experience granted me the chance to observe peace that nature has to offer, along with many different opportunities this extraordinary lifestyle has brought me. I draw much of my inspiration for my artwork from these memories and experiences. One body of artwork I created, “Fading Way of Life,” represents the unique experiences that one can only apprehend by living on the Eastern Shore. It also shows what things are around us that may be overlooked within this chosen lifestyle and a critical view of the things that are either no longer or are fading away from our lives entirely. This body of artwork inspires tradition and enlightens people to the beauty around them every day, which may be taken for granted.

My artwork is done by capturing moments of true wonder in the natural world using painting, drawing, and photography. My artwork should not only be identified by subject matter, but also by technique.  As Aristotle said, "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” I try to show the inward significance of these moments using line, texture and expressive marks in my artwork, this technique also involves different forms and shapes included within my artwork, along with varying strokes and consistency of medium. When constructing and deconstructing my paintings my main objective is to create movement within a mix of abstraction and representation, a movement that involving these forms and texture brings compositional complexity that draws the viewer’s eye in, out and around the work. I believe that by pulling the viewer’s eye into the artwork that it makes one contemplate and bring different notions and questions into the subject matter. With my use of gestural marks and the process of disarticulating, re-assembling, and distorting the image, I challenge and bring contemporary styling into a traditional subject which I draw my inspiration from. I cannot conceive of anything being more varied, rich and handsome than the planet earth and this is why all of my art is centered around this passion.