My practice of photorealistic painting creates new life from a photo by reenergizing and redefining a subject by introducing hypersatured colors, strategic marks, and glowing edges.  A photograph’s vehicle and information source are equally important to me as the subject itself, which creates a visual style representative of a specific time and space (such as film photography, screen effects, or flashes). Representationalism does not simply boast a technical skill by duplicating a picture, but it elevates a scene as a statement in an attempt to relay my relationship to it through careful examination and hyperfixation. My style of photorealism and hyperrealism are where my memories and experience converge with craftsmanship, technology and choice, joyfully pushing the boundaries between realism and expressionism.

I paint with sincere reverence and love of our environments and experiences as the beautiful, gifts we all share: how truly fortunate we are to access both art and nature so freely, and the joy to make human connections within them. My hope is that my paintings provide an opportunity to question our perception of space and color, to contemplate the concept of creation- whether artistically or divinely- and appreciate the structures, forms, and fine details within the natural and superficial world, and to compare the idea of the authentic versus the artificial; the manufactured versus the organic.

My recent works are divided into series like landscapes, "A Closer Look," and wildlife: each allows me the opportunity to push my various strengths and sensibilities. "A Closer Look" explores the combination of technology and craftsmanship by translating photos of small-scale natural occurrences that, when magnified, transform into abstract and hypnotic compositions. Likewise, my wildlife paintings enhance the color, lines, and forms of an animal into a work that demands admiration for their natural beauty while suggesting exciting areas of unnatural color that spark a new sense of tangibility. But in our daily and dark indoors and where unnatural colors most naturally occur, I find just as much excitement in reproducing the mass-produced: the bar scenes, the labels, the shelves, and the stocked. The glowing flames and neon lights that trigger our senses and create noise (aka: the antithesis of the natural) can be found in my Bar Shelves series and my newest, First World Choices.