First of all, let me say thankyou for stopping in and welcome to my gallery. Below are a few links to help you jump right into the galleries as well as contact information. Following those is a current artist's statement.

Main Gallery: [link]

Formlessisms: [link]

Land, Sky, & Water-scapes: [link]

Photography: [link]

Email: LivingBrushArts@gmail.com

Artist’s Statement

Something is happening within me- something both familiar and completely new. Entirely subjective, the only evidence of this transformation appears in its external interpretation, which is my art. I am affected daily by this and I’ve grown used to seeing the world as it is instead of through the warped perspective of my specific identity with its beliefs and opinions. Moving through the world in this way allows me greater freedom in that I no longer oppose what is, and instead of being affected by everything, I now choose how I want to feel.
When I feel the surge of life and purpose that we loosely call inspiration, I enter the studio. I do my best to relax and let the details of my life fade into the past so that I am not distracted. Becoming still, I quiet my mind and simply pay attention.
Somewhere from within my mind and the hazy nothingness behind my closed eye-lids, I am aware of a glowing swarm of colors abstracted by some kind of layering that leads me to believe there is order within the chaotic swirling. Life begins to fill the gap between my point of awareness and the intertwining colors and suddenly, I am the colors- and they pulsate as I breathe in more awareness. The psychedelic parade of half-images and feelings coalesce into a Vision, and Art happens.
This process has been evolving within my approach to creating for years now. I used to think that it was important for me to create carefully, thought-out and meticulously detailed art if I was going to be an artist, but I was only partially right. I found that the caution and attention to detail was far more effective when I applied it to my entire life. When living is done with Quality, then that Quality seeps into every aspect of that living. My goal of helping to lift humanity to the beautiful heights we are capable of relentlessly weighed upon me and I felt that I would never be able to carry this out. It was a small tweak in my application of this goal that has brought it all within reach, and that is by applying my hope for humanity first to myself. The higher I lift my Self, the higher I am capable of lifting another. It becomes easier to maintain this Love and share it with others. Creating art has become secondary to direct and authentic relationship.
The art that happens through my spirit, mind, and hands is a record of my own subjective experience- of being lifted higher. As such, the only intention I bring to its creation currently, other than letting go of my control over it, is to walk the line between form and the formless- between realism and non-representationalism. In this pursuit I combine spontaneity and imagination with nature and reality so that these works can provide a bridge to those realms where anything is possible and the soul is renewed.

Ferocious...

Savage...

Merciless-

this Beauty takes no survivors.