ARTIST STATEMENT
For over 19 years, I have always been fascinated with drawing and painting, within those years I have dabbled in other art forms such as basketry, metal smithing, and wood working while drawing and painting are my main focus. I tend to depict paintings and drawings that have to do with my childhood memories, over dreams that I felt had meaning towards my life. I would describe my artwork strength with my use of color and attention to small details. I have an understanding of how to evoke mood and also bring depth into the composition. With my fine details I like to either go for a very stylized or realism approach, I want my pieces to feel engaging, or an understanding of what they felt I felt in what I am depicting to the viewer.

From a very young age, art was all I wanted to do, It was how I spent most of my days. My dad was an artist and I always admired him, and he's the one who taught me what I know then and now. I resonate with art because it has helped me so much with finding out who I am as a person and just being able to express myself and my feelings when words just can't. I love to create art that resonates with others, and or someone can relate to. I like to create art about how I see the world, how I see myself, memories, childhood, the good and bad things in life, and dreams. I express my ideas through the mediums of acrylic paint, Prismacolor, and oil paint.

My most recent body of work is a painting I created. It was from when I was around the age of 7, the piece is called “Easter Day.” I remember this memory so clearly, it is one of my favorite memories from when I was a child, I just remember what I felt. Everything was so bright, the grass was so green, I was running around collecting eggs, the water from the river was moving, the birds were chirping, it felt like music to my ears. People were tubing down the river, I was saying hello to each person, it was just such a great day. I felt nothing could wrong me in that moment, I just felt so free, I will always remember that day, that moment, I was just being a kid.