I create visual experiences that connect people to dreams.

As we dream, we recall imagery in series. We visit the past and we aspire to participate in the events of our future. We create worlds rooted in personal context and deeply connected to our emotions. In these landscapes we face our fears, are spiritually moved, and sensually connected. Some of our dream experiences are so believable and powerful that they call us to action in our everyday lives.

The challenge of representing the dream landscape has led to the exploration of the human dream experience as a series of combined elements expressed in artistic form. Lucid elements are the centerpieces of context and meaning in dreamscapes. Surrounding these clear focal points, we find an ephemeral blur or haze where images transition and fade,. Story scenarios play out in repeated sequences, often changing or prompting us to revise them. We solve problems, seek answers, run, fall, fly, yearn, fear and lust, all in cyclical short film like sequences.

My interpretive process begins with a series of sketches, stories, sometimes pictures and three dimensional objects. Selections are then composed yielding a narrative assemblage. The final step includes creating connections between the physical art surface and the ephemeral, imagined place. Links between the two worlds flow together in a series of painted gestures. Layers of brush strokes and washes complete the dreamscapes, adding transitional dream fragments, implied depth, a sense of light, shadow, and often motion.

Art presents the opportunity to live fully immersed in the places and stories of my dreams.