I am fascinated with the relationship between our eye/brain and the visual references we use every day to interpret our surroundings, in the physical as well as the emotional sense. We expect a certain consistency and in fact impose consistency on our visual environment even when it's not there. And so I create paintings about things and of things, apparent things and impossible things.

In these paintings I combine traditional "illusionistic" painting techniques with the more contemporary notion of the inviolable picture plane. Creating an ambiguous circumstance that fluctuates between the two.

The object painted, which seems obvious at first, if observed closely, is liable to become something else. At the same time all of the elements of painting, line, surface, color etc. are equally available, having as much weight as the spacial illusion. This creates a tension between ambiguity and certitude that has both balance and movement.This in turn, creates interest and delight.