Heart and Mind

In my creative work I try to find a balance between conveying the intellectual and emotional. I seem to reach closer to this goal in music and poetry but often stray from achieving this in my visual work, perhaps because painting is interpretive and its strength is not so much to articulate as to provoke, together with its appeal to our sense of aesthetic. I often present music, images, and words together so as to improve their chance that our hearts and minds quicken in equal measure.

Love

I see my son - I cannot begin to convey the happiness that unfolds.

With those I love my world transforms.

Short of Breath

I have mild asthma, which I view as good fortune. In the main I suffer no ill affects and lead a very active life, however dust, pollen and animal fur can at times make it difficult for me to breathe.

Breathing is such an involuntary activity we are rarely concious of it.

To not always have ease is to value something.