As Ophelia said in the play Hamlet, we like portraits because they are "remembrances." Why artists like portraits is that it gives one an opportunity to play with color, light, and harmony. The interaction between the artist and the viewer is a magical place where the intentions of both participants merge into something new altogether. 

What a painting seeks to do is make a profound connection with the viewer, by continually revealing something new with its whimsical or often poignant passages. Unlike a photograph, you should be continuously surprised by a painting. 

The reason I began painting Trompe L'Oeil is that I had so many different things that I liked to paint. I found that when I was painting portraits that there were often still-life or landscapes in the background. When I decided to move more into only painting Trompe L'Oeil it allowed me to be humorous and layered in my intentions in a more direct way.  

Landscape paintings are both pure formalism and also pure romance. In the Dutch Baroque period a landscape is always a signifier for romantic feelings. A landscape painting is an opportunity to make purely abstract patterns with color and geometry. 

Still Life in Italian is Nature Morte which literally means "Dead Nature." However, still life is anything but dead, it is the genre that most speaks to other painters. Whether Chardin or Morandi, still life has been the painter's best opportunity to explore plastic space. Using every technique in the painter's wheelhouse to shift and move the viewer's gaze: In, Up, Out, and Down - in a perfect figure eight. 

From time to time people are interested in what works are currently available for purchase. It is always difficult for an artist to part with his original paintings, as each creation takes on it's own kind of life force, and in some way is a part of your very consciousness. 

I trust that each painting will find it's way into the home and heart of someone who will love it as much as I do.