"My work explores the connection between the artist and the model, the energy exchanged between the two. It's about emotional response, tactile, visceral, abstract, created with a limited color palette, leaving the brush strokes and drips raw and unrefined. It's as much a conversation as a picture, a snapshot of emotion, a thread running between the observer and the observed. Connective Tissue."
From the Dysphagia Series. Portraits have always been tough for me, it’s taken me some strain to distance myself form having to capture a likeness. Two of my favorite people sat for this one. Samara, who has a very quiet depth to her and Mila, whom I swear is a demon trapped in a woman’s body. I keep it on my bookshelf to protect my house.
