I love to explore with paint, drawings, and collage in a mixed media way, usually inspired by the figure and everyday life.  Using collected ephemera, old and new, along with figure drawings, water media, or oil paint, stirred up in a mixed media, until it works for me.  I'm influenced by expressionism and surrealism, landing somewhere between realism and abstraction.  Texture, hand of the artist, color, and mysterey interest me.

I hope the viewer engages their imagination while looking at my paintings.

Currently my paintings are exhibited in the Los Gatos Museums Gallery, andThe CottonWorks

 in Los Gatos Calif. 

I believe art changes our perceptions of the people and world around us, broadening our perspectives in ways that cultivate greater respect for humanity and nature.

I work mostly with acrylics, but lately I have been mixing photography and other media into my paintings, using real world subjects to create images of worlds I imagine. Currently, I find myself depicting humanity coming to terms with the immutability of Mother Nature: jungles overtake urban settings and cityscapes grow out of trees. 

In 2012 I returned to San Francisco after living in Costa Rica for four years where I opened an art gallery in an isolated village visited by international travelers drawn to the unspoiled  jungle and beaches. There I was able to immerse myself in painting, selling not only my originals, but also, more than a thousand travel-friendly reproductions. This has given me a good sense of what people like in my work. 

My studio is in the Mission District on Clarion Alley, a location covered with murals and frequented by art-loving tourists from around the world. I am almost always there Thursday through Sunday in the afternoon. Stop by and take a look.

I think photography is an incredible way of telling stories.
The reward of finding moments and distilling feelings, to me, is like making magic. I don’t know about you, but I see pictures wherever I am.

Please Stay on Paths is a collection of images that detail the nature, the unexpected, inside the city. Golden Gate Park has always provided a wealth of secret, quiet intense images for me and has been an oasis and a refuge from city life.

My photography has been seen in the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, San Francisco magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the San Francisco Examiner, SHOTS magazine, The Urbanist, SFist.com, The Huffington Post, The Bold Italic and 7×7.com. My work has appeared in juried shows and galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vermont, Minneapolis, Virginia, and New Orleans.

The intersection of line and color create the journey.  To create.  To bring forth what is inside.  To share the journey that takes one home without ever leaving it.  

My work begins with a captured image – a photograph - of something external in the perceived world which is then modified through techniques and media to provide an altered perception, an internal reaction, to that reality my methods produce images of surreal luminosity where the blurring and graying and softening of lines creates an ethereal emanation of internal light.

They are glowing from within.
 

Movement- water mist -flow
The fog rolling in from the ocean along the coast
gently softening everything and the world quiets down.

We humans are always drawn to bodies of water.
It doesn't seem to matter whether it’s the vastness of our oceans,

the stillness of a small pond, with the wind dancing on it.
It’s ever changing like life is.
We love to spend hours pondering before it.
It’s a great place to think and clear out our head and explore with our heart and soul.

We owe everything to water and light, the power of life.   

My fascination with string began several years ago while using it on a series of figure paintings. I became fixated on the 'accidental', provocative shapes it created, so I began to investigate its use on abstracts. Utilizing thread, yarn and deconstructed canvas much like I would a drawing implement, I begin a piece by weaving an intriguing cacophony of forms over an acrylic ground. Multiple layers of glazes and oil cover the underpainting in a subtractive method, allowing an image to slowly emerge from the chaos. The discovery of this process has recently led me to mixed media works on which I fragment the pure abstract form as well as abstract the biological and natural world. Fabric, wallpaper and silver leaf often add to the works’ dynamism, creating an interesting dichotomy between these mass-produced elements and the organic assemblage. While I remain rooted in a rather classical painting technique in the end, introducing the string medium has offered endless directions that I have only just begun to explore. 

My paintings are done on reclaimed wood, canvas, metals or any other surface that can deliver my images with strenght. I paint mixing traditional and contemporary media such as, oil paint and gesso, along side spray paint, paper, plastics and printing papers, ink and tape. By layering these media, I'm best able to convey my art's subject matter which draws heavily from my opinions on current affairs.  I enjoy works from Titan to the heroic and graphic power of the Comic Book form.

Yoni and I work in a variety of mediums. We have prints, paintings, collage and pastels. We find inspiration in the randomness of life. Seeing something new transform before your eyes.