Painting gives me a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that I’ve not found elsewhere in life. My current focus is trompe l'oeil painting. I love the trickery and the responses that I hear when it's discovered that a cork board is indeed a 2-D painting and not a 3-D object. My work allows viewers to question what they are seeing. As in life, things are not always what they seem upon first inspection. It's important to take a closer look.

The items used in each piece usually have some personal meaning to me, or they simply make me smile. I use items and ephemera found during travels, souvenirs, work from other artists whom I admire or aspire to their greatness, and little random things that speak to me. The end result is an introspective painting that reflects what I was going through in my head at the time the painting was created. A sort of self-portrait. I leave it up to the viewer to interpret what that meaning is. In doing so, they become part of the experience, extolling their own experiences with what they are viewing.