The whole premise of my work is the energy and the fleetingness of life. People aren’t stagnant, they move constantly interacting with their environment. I want to capture that in my paintings through vivid colors and quick gestural brush strokes. That energy (that fleetingness of life) happens throughout my creative process – from the first sketches to the final painting. I love going to different gathering places and drawing people as they move along doing everyday activities. I sketch anywhere there are people – restaurants, hospitals, malls, church, the gym, pools, etc. Then, I compose those sketches into one cohesive painting using my own unique color palette on canvas with oil paint.

My paintings are inspired by the works of Degas, Van Gogh, Kandinsky and the German Expressionist.