Artists Statement
I was born and spent most of my childhood in New Jersey. I have been painting in oils for ten years. I attended Florida State University where I received my BS in Art Education and my BFA in Fine Arts. My focus was painting in oils on canvas. At the end of my time at Florida State I started exploring the idea of beauty and hyperrealism through oils. I graduated from Florida State December of 2007. Since graduation I have taught art in a number of Elementary Schools. I am currently teaching art at Pineview Elementary School. I have continued to explore the human face and the beauty found in the details. There is beauty in the process of aging and in what may seem an uncomfortable closeness of a face. Not only is the face a wonderful thing to behold, but also I find it is best captured through paint on canvas. Just as life paints lines on our face so my paintings accentuate the beauty of life shown in the face. My main goal in painting is to honor God for th...