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On a winter’s day in 1984 “photography” and I happened to meet to art. Although I have never been a dedicated painter I see and
quite by accident, an encounter that redirected my life and changed experience the world in this way. Life is my canvas and I feel like a
it forever. Over the past twenty seven years my approach has taken painter trapped in a photographer’s body where lens and light have
numerous detours while walking a path of self-discovery. become an expressive substitute for paint and brushes.

This journey has refined a relaxed subconscious attitude with In my work I intently concentrate on elemental form, rhythm and
a desire to embrace simplicity and express honesty through pattern allowing simplicity to disengage visual impact. My social
my work. For me, a photograph holds an undeniable sense of commentary and documentary work has been inspired by the great
realism, a modern correlation that is easy to associate with. I see, artist and master photographer Henri Cartier Bresson. On the other
I understand, I experience, and I connect. Unlike many artists, I hand, many of my still-life and abstract studies have been described
treat anything as a subject and photograph things purely because as painterly expressionistic, drawing influences through the works
I am interested in their transformation from reality to realism of Henri Matisse and of late Jackson Pollock.

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