Painting is a doorway into another world. A gateway to another reality.

It is not only an illusion of three dimensional space ,

but a reflection of the world that exists within me.

This inner world that I paint is partly based on reality , but it is an idealized reality.

It is a place of calmness that exists in fleeting moments of time.

With painting, I am able to capture these serene moments.

The people, place, and events that I paint are frozen in a moment of time and reality.

That may not have existed in the material world ( the world that we live in … ).