Statement of Purpose as an Artist:

"Emotional Archaeology"

My work celebrates Animism.  Various life forms inhabit fluctuating timelines and shape-shifting is prominent, with human figures sharing aspects of animal and plant anatomies.  Vibrating juxtapositions of color and plane bring tension to compositions created from the intersection of autobiography and cosmology.

As a clinical psychologist and self-taught artist, i've followed different paths and mediums for learning the art and practice of healing.  It's possible that all of my work can be seen as a response to the evolving question ‘Who are we?’   

To find a symbolic and visual language, i draw inspiration from the psychologically purgative function of Louise Bourgeois' sculptures, the Surrealist's comprehension of the primary process language of the unconscious, and the hybrid figures and shape-shifting fluidity of Shamanic journeying.

This body of work is created as an ongoing expression of reverence to the Indigenous communities who opened and shared their spiritual worlds and medicine circles with me.  The deepest learnings of my life have come through these experiences, whole-hearted immersions into ancient traditions for the spiritual treatment of the human soul - generations backwards and forwards in time - in the mountains of Gabon and along the Amazon River in Ecuador and Peru.