My forms and content draw from Jungian archetypes of the psyche - the Hero, the Shadow, and other fundamental patterns that reside in the collective unconscious. These archetypal figures emerge spontaneously during the painting process, appearing unbidden as I work. Through the physical act of painting, these initial manifestations are gradually refined and given form, allowing the unconscious material to be made conscious and visible.

I am profoundly interested in what Anthropologist Gregory Bateson has called western civilization’s philosophical error - that we stand apart from nature. My work attempts to highlight this fraught position by engaging directly in the simple things that I have direct experience of and access to - the collective unconscious, my psyche, and nature.

Everything moves. Everything changes. My artworks embrace this fundamental truth - that we are observers of an endless dance of transformation, where even stillness contains motion and every moment dissolves into the next.

My role as artist becomes that of both witness and collaborator - observing what wants to emerge from the depths of the psyche, then working with paint and form to give these archetypal energies their fullest expression. The painting process itself becomes a form of active imagination, where the dialogue between conscious technique and unconscious content creates meaning that transcends what either could achieve alone.