Artist Statement

In my art I aim to provoke inquiry into our human potential.  My main interests are peace and happiness and how we can keep calm and create peace living on our beleaguered planet.  I think art can help us—that it can catapult us into the realm of pure potential and connect us with something vital in ourselves.  I am currently working on a series of imagined adverts that remind us of our true selves.  These pieces sometimes appears funny or fantastical (can drinking Peace Tea really create peace?) but I’m asking us to consider new ways of being.  I believe if we want to see peace in the world we must first find it in ourselves.

I’ve spent many years studying yoga and the eastern healing arts which is where I became more deeply aware of the true self within us all that is steady, calm and infinite.  It has also helped me to know in a deeper way the part the mind plays in creating our reality and how we can use it.  My art is designed to remind us that we are so much more than we often think we are.

I’m very much influenced by the spareness of Japanese design as well as the color and narrative quality of Indian miniatures.  Both of these convey to me refined, bold and positive energy backed by traditions of ennobling thought.  I try to blend what I love from the east and the west with my own life experience to create work that brings good energy and brave new world thoughts to a world in need of positive change.