My work has evolved from formal representation and portraiture to a broader, freer, less restrained approach to painting. I experiment much more with technique and composition, allowing a collision of elements to take place. Pop and iconic imagery may hover over a trace of an old European master painting, sometimes beautifully, sometimes with uncomfortable tension.
My process is experimental and there is little to no planning for each canvas. I have a general idea of what I want to paint, but the process determines the final piece. My attempt is to mix ideas and to create aesthetic contrasts on the same piece of canvas, and sometimes it's a fight; the layering of paint, overpainting, wrestling with ideas, editing and reworking an element until it's right. In the end I try to create work that is fun and exciting to me.
