I couldn’t have said it better and therefore I quote Jacques-Louis David. 

        My journey is two-fold:  First, is to create the visual images of the Word of God that I have by grace been intuitively given to interpret.  Second, is to provide an aesthetic message to be intuited by the viewer. 

        Seemingly ‘out of the blue’ God’s gift of artistry has injected itself into my bloodstream.  I can’t “not” paint or draw.  His messages come out to me and I am forced to paint as I read His scripture passages.  They come alive in the gift of ‘interpretation’ and are then transposed into visual images that act like parables, causing the viewer to not simply appreciate aesthetically the earthly rendering, but to gather from the image an awakening, a heavenly meaning.  And though not every piece of art I do is solely inspired Scriptural art, the secular pieces are formed and created in a like manner. 

        Art is an aesthetic message.  It can be visually beautiful; it can be visually ugly.  The essence of art is the intuitive rendering of a magnificent and/or profound message.  This message can be serious, humorous, revealing, educational, reflective, etc., but it is almost always something that is best (or only) reflected through visual imagery.  It is received by the artist intuitively and reflected by art form to the viewer intuitively.  And isn’t this how the Holy Scripture was created? 

        I am a completely self-taught artist painting since 1996.  My choice of mediums is pastels and oils: pastels because of the pure pigments, wonderful color and effects; oils because of their vibrancy of color, flow, richness and quality. 

        I am most fascinated with portraiture and figurative art though I am quite pleased with all subjects. 

                                                                  . . . and my style?  like that of Scripture.