One of my first jobs was printing department store signs on an ancient press. I was fascinated by the process and the product.
Today, I am a digital collage, painter, photographer and graphic design artist. I use multiple applicaitons, techniques and filters, many created by my own design in creating images. These art projects usually involve multiple images and layers that are eventually juxtaposed and rendered into a synthesis for the final image.
These images represent an array of artistic styles and multi-dimensional layers, and hybridization. The work includes landscapes, portraits, abstract images cityscapes, architecture etc. The process involves exploring dissonances between images and the intersections between these elements and multiple ideas that these juxtapositions create. I usually have a concept in mind before I start a new project but I am intrigued and energized by the exploration in creating new work as well as developing and finding new tools.
Human beings, life, nature and the world around us are all multi-dimensional, they have stories, they interlink, they grow, they die, they move, they change. They release signs of change, that I hope to capture.
Artists that have influenced y work are Dr. Gene Hatfield former chair of University of Central Arkansas Fine Arts who studied with Henri Goetz in Paris and Lyon France, and were classified as Folk Art Surrealists.
And more recently the British Graphic Designer Alex Williamson.