Artist Statement

An artist is not an artist unless he/she creates work. I work in clay, three dimensional rendering, painting, and printmaking. I like to call myself a jack of all trades and I create work in order to do something I have not done before.
The continuous themes in my work are: warm colors and sweeping motions. I want to make an emotional connection with viewers.
My clay works are humorous as well as serious. They vary from a literal army of miniature militant lemmings to a glaring self portrait. My three dimensional renderings are fun and colorful, literally sweeping across the scene and has bonus footage after the credits. My paintings are true natural landscape and although these are real scenes, I have been told that my viewers expect a troll to come stomping down the hill. My printmaking varies from the texture of human flesh to watercolors that depict serious and sometimes life-threatening truths.
I believe that once I have done everything that I may do nothing at all, so I should always try to find something new.