Artist's Statement:
My modest wish in making art, art that is pure, honest and unadorned, is that the process of interpreting my physical world with focused intentionality reaches down into my soul to the bedrock of truth that was given to me thirty-something years ago through faith. The premise of this faith is the belief that the physical world I paint exists because of a creative God and this God and His creation of the physical world can be fully known through Christ. Paul tells us in Romans that since the creation of the physical world, man can see clearly God's power and divine nature. Art is a natural progression of my faith. In my struggle to interpret an apple, inking knife or chair, I give myself over to the way light dances over planes of color. The relationship is formed and I become small compared to the significance of the image - uncluttered, solid and straightforward. A powerful presence is possible through absence. When good comes to the surface of the canvas, I sense a direct overflow of the indwelling Spirit of God. The aim is not to glorify the image but to glorify the Creator and call attention to His goodness to me.
