Sunday, March 11, 2012

life drawing image dump

Lots of recent work from the anatomy drawing class I'm taking.














Wednesday, March 7, 2012

High Priestess

"High Priestess"
oil on wood
36" x 12"
2012

[details below]





Monday, March 5, 2012

Self-portrait

Self-portrait
charcoal and acrylic gesso on paper
2012


[detail below]




Sunday, March 4, 2012

Updated Artist's Statement

A childhood spent beneath vaulted arches has led me to associate flowing drapery, beams of light, and certain gestures with holiness.  Yet I have found holiness elsewhere: nature, ancient myth, and especially the human body.  All these speak to a more tangible sanctity that exists in our world and to mankind’s intimate relationship with it.  Through carefully-crafted paintings and drawings I express my reverence for all things sacred.  My images are eclectic, rather than confined by any specific dogma.  Catholic and Pagan symbolism blend seamlessly amid figures engrossed in ritual or meditation.  I hope that my work can inspire an appreciation for things immaterial, like the sensation of ritual, which lie just beyond the reaches of our understanding.