What first appears fragmented gradually reveals its connections. Irregular shapes, unexpected colors and remnants of other images overlap and interact, creating a new canvas for compositions in which the eye continually discovers something new within the whole.

Layers become lines, and lines become the canvas. Strips of reclaimed paint are deliberately arranged to establish the underlying composition, becoming a canvas that allows the history within the material and the artist’s hand to become inseparable in the finished work.

Using his own photography, a hand-painted field of black has obliterated a single element: a peak, a ridgeline, a monument of stone. What remains is absence made physical. The void becomes a presence of its own: a silhouette of memory, a shape the mind insists on completing. It forces one to confront how we see – and what we take for granted.

A tree is a tree and a bird is a bird. At first glance, everything is simple. However, as the eye travels across these compositions, it sees a rich, complex tapestry of color and multi-layered texture that energizes each work.

Most of life is focused on contrast. Each piece in this collection focuses on combining shades of gray or neutral colors. Their quiet beauty is meant to be contemplative. Each is multi-layered and multi-textured. The palette is chosen to allow the eye to relax.

This group of paintings entices you to enter their world. Each of these pieces was buried – collected and compounded under layers of muraled events and each tells a different story. The complexity and composition of the materials allows this story to unfold in an endless set of variations. What one person might see could be totally different from what the person standing next to them might see.