Artist Statement

I am a digital painter. I make my artworks in the traditions of painting - but using computers and mobile devices.

I am a visual storyteller. My images are conceived as part of larger stories; they are illustrations - though they are more than that, too. And, the titles of my images are essential parts of the stories that they tell. Sometimes I expand titles into flash fictions, and some of those become longer written stories. I assemble those stories, with their pictures, into books.

My images are built up out of captured, appropriated, and AI images, operated on using such digital tools as glitch and blending apps, filters, and digital paintbrushes. My foremost model is the visual storyteller Paul Klee, but reflections of Seurat, Rauschenberg, and oriental rugs may also be seen.

In my writing, there are farces, tragedies, histories, and fictionalized memoirs and essays. My foremost model is Borges, but echoes of Rilke, Wodehouse, Lewis Thomas, Nabokov, and Eric Ambler may also be heard.

My images are printed on a variety of substrates, typically aluminum, wood, or canvas. I especially value the dialectic between the flatness of the pixel matrix of a digital image, and the simulation or even the fakery of apparent texture and depth in it; and finding a substrate material for an image that enhances this simulation is for me a natural extension of that dialectic.