Artist Statement

It is the beauty of Godʼs magnificent artistry in the world around me that inspires me to paint. I love light. It transforms the mundane into the spectacular. I stand in awe. Colors, rhythmic patterns, and beautiful form perform as if dancing to unheard music. This is what I try to capture in my artwork. It brings me great joy and purpose in life to birth on canvas those things which stir my soul.

I love rhythmic, well-designed compositions with a lot of ʻfood for the eyeʼ. I am a representational painter by choice. I feel that my affinity towards realism enhances the message I am trying to convey. Concept and design are paramount, but by offering complex compositions, full of detail, the eye can keep traveling around the painting discovering something new every step of the way. 

 

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Paintings > Christian > Redeeming Love

Acrylic painting on canvas, 40"x30".  In this painting Jesus takes the hand of a believer and presses it to his heart.  This woman, representing any believer, has come to the cross to receive forgiveness for her sins.  Forgiven, her cloths are now white while the dark garment of sin falls away.  Others have come to the cross as well and the black and red scarves represent their repented sins.  The rope represents the things that spiritually bound them and kept them from walking in freedom.  At the woman's feet you see the blood of Jesus which has cleansed her and this steam has turned into a river of life.

The Lord says: "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool."  Isaiah 1:18