Artist Statement

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

My digital paintings are built up out of captured, appropriated, and AI-generated images, collaged, combined, and operated on using such tools as glitch and blending apps, and digital filters and paintbrushes.

I am a visual storyteller. I create little stories around most of my images, suggesting larger stories; some of these only exist as titles - as potential stories. They mostly all derive from images, so in a way the titles or stories are descriptions of the images that they belong to - but they are more than that, too.

My images are illustrations of the texts that they belong to – though they are more than that, too.

My texts, like my images, have an independent existence.

I assemble the stories, with their pictures, into books.

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.