"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."
An odd little painting started at the end of the long term at Todd Leninger’s. I’d finished my first painting and changed my view for a profile of Sarina. I’ve always loved the flow of walnut oil so I went kind of nuts with the hair on this one. The second layer is Samara, who had long dreads at the time. The Juxtaposition in textures is fun.
