This painting was inspired by the wild notion that when I die, should there be a hereafter, that I would like to have a dinner party with those famous artists who have lived before me, and that the essence of who they are should be stylistically reflected in how they are depicted. After all…

“The Kiss,” makes the viewer an inadvertent voyeur to a feeding vampire. It’s titillating. The vampire has consumed her victim, and her eyes touch you:  a prospective meal. Her body, saturated with blood from her lips to the ends of her hair, becomes an over-sized, engorged orifice; the victim’s back doubles as a prominent fang. I am reminded of the J. Robert Oppenheimer quote…

Pure and simple, this pastel work was created as a celebration of life, imbued with a sense of freedom that only flight can express.

“Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” Life reminds me of Plato’s allegory of the cave. For this pastel work, I was ruminating on the age of the earth, of the civilizations that have come and gone; of the people and cultures that have been lost. When suddenly,I realized that everything and everyone that exists today is a cumulative…

Human beings, I believe, were meant to be the planet’s care takers .Our dangerous arrogance has enabled us to abuse nature in all forms. Consequently, we see ourselves as separate from nature rather than an extension of it.  The green lion represents the masculine side of nature (predatory, savage, protective) while the goddess (mother nature) represents the feminine side…