Somewhere I heard the following saying: “At fifty you get the face you deserve”.
My work is a composite of those moments, forgotten and poignant in peoples lives,
the ones that create a landscape of living; ever moving; never still nor frozen but alive.
Each breath of life has as much uniqueness as the one that came before and also the one we assume will follow.
I am not interested in “The glorified staged manifestation of a life” but of “a life in transit, caught, glimpsed”
just that moment before continuing.
My particular search into “identity” has lead me to read the human face
as a landscape of individual qualities, opinions and assumptions.
The method i use is: heavy impasto solely applied vigorously and effectively with the palette knife.
The use of textures and strokes register the ruts and swells on that road leading through that land of life I expose.
The property of light and time determine the choice of hue and action for each unique curve, shadow, strand, pore and emotion captured.
And so somewhere...
