My dependence on the visual world began when I lost much of my hearing through spinal meningitis at 2 years of age. This loss was a blessing in disguise as I learned to depend on body language and reading lips to communicate. So, from my youngest days, I became sensitive to the people around me and the unspoken language revealed through compositions of the human body.

There are essentially two themes in my approach to painting…beauty and truth.

Beauty is something that I seek in the materials that I use; the surface, the color palette, and the layering of the water blooms. For me, beauty is in the tangible material.

Truth is something that I look for and discover in the people that I paint. Truth is pure, it is innocent, it is something that transcends the physical world. When we encounter this in each other, it is profound and gives us a deep connection to the human experience. It gives us a universal oneness.