Inspiration

My earliest work drew its influence from Wendy and Richard Pini's flagship work: Elfquest. As a teenager you could not keep me from those graphic novels and I compulsively purchased each one as I found it and guarded them with my life.

Other perennial seeds of artistic expression stem from my love of the human form, and human sexuality in all its boundless articulations and deviations. I marvel at the eternal ebb and flow of the natural dichotomy of land and sea, storms and calm, masculine and feminine, darkness and light.

Techniques

While much of my 2D work is line driven and is created with a dip pen and acrylic ink using water color techniques, I occasionally deviate into acrylic or oil paint, ceramics, intricate wire beaded body jewelry, or photography. These elements are frequently referenced within the various bodies of work that I produce.

Career Highlights

I had the privilege to be awarded Best in Show for a ceramic belly dance costume made out of hand- crafted shards held together with crochet. I blurred the lines between fine art and craft and dance and followed this accomplishment with my capstone exhibit the next year.

During that year I fired between ten and twelve thousand shards in varying sizes, shapes and colors and fashioned them into twenty five individual costumes which were displayed on paper mache busts in the gallery.  Several were worn by models during the opening of the exhibit.