Through photography, a moment is frozen and an image is flattened, but my practice of photorealistic painting creates new life by reenergizing and redefining a subject by introducing hypersatured colors and strategic marks.  A photo’s vehicle and information source are equally as important as the subject itself, creating a visual style representative of a specific era and space. 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 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 it. My hope is that my paintings provide an additional 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 world, and to question the idea of the authentic versus the artificial; the manufactured versus the organic.