Paintings 2003 - 2006

I’ve always wanted to be a painter.

As young as I could remember, I would sit in bed late at night sketching my own made up super heroes, comic books characters,

and anything else that came from within my imagination.

Fast forward to 2001, I begun taking painting courses at night and started experimenting with different mediums on paper and soon after on canvas.

My first influences were Mark Rothko and Joan Mitchell.

I loved looking at Mark’s colour fields paintings and the serenity and spiritual feelings they drew from me. I had to paint like him no matter what I thought,

but wanted to add my own sense of serenity by creating land and sky scapes. Opposite to that, Joan Mitchell’s seemingly messy

abstract expressionist style was intriguing and a challenge to try and figure out.

The work here is the same serenity I want my audience to feel and the self discovery I had accumulated, working many years to achieve.