Drawing and Painting

Streaming the narrative

In high school, I had started developing a drawing style born out of early 60’s psychedelic posters. I loved the work of Rick Griffin, then later on learned

of abstract expressionist painters like Philip Guston. After foundation classes in art school, I had the time to return to this early style, this time diving deeper into concepts like collective conscious- ness and free association, and learned about such figures as Carl Jung and Italo Calvino.

I would eventually take my early draw- ing style into oil paintings and explore story narratives, environments, hiero- glyphics, mandalas, even installation and outdoor graffiti.

Though I’ve moved on to other projects and different mediums, many of the core concepts are still at the core of all my work: Flow and movement, a willing- ness to bend the composition to the brink, and a fascination with iconography and the power of symbols.