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The works contained on this site are a reflection of my personal passion to create something truly original in concept all the while maintaining my deep love for realism. As seeming destiny, the visual arts has been an inescapable part of who I am... and consequently, I find myself on a compelling, continual and elusive journey to create something which comprises the qualities of “true beauty and lasting significance”. With that in mind, I believe the source of “true beauty and lasting significance” can be found in only one place... in Him who has created all that is truly beautiful and eternal.
My approach can be summed up in what songwriter T- Bone Burnett was quoted in the L. A. Weekly as saying... “If Jesus is the light of the world, there are two kinds of songs you can write. You can write songs about the light or you can write songs about what you can see from the light.” In other words, my work is not necessarily done in terms of “religious” imagery, but in a way that is reflective of a Christ centered world view. A central view where there exists the truth of a duality in man and creation. The duality of both a fallen nature... and the hope of a renewed and perfectly restored nature.
As an artist, I am compelled to express this in subtle and sometimes not so subtle ways. In so doing, I am faced with the pleasure, as well as the responsibility, to bring a visual stimulus that inspires truth, reality and hope.... that perhaps, through an extended body of work, I can express a world view that gives hope to others by the art which I create... not a hope within itself, but that it gives a true reflection of the source of that which is truly hope.
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