I studied fine arts in Florence Italy, so my work is influenced by medieval and renaissance history. I tell stories in the old style, where the important elements are enlarged to exaggerate the narrative. The Characters that inhabit my paintings are of my own language. Dragons are boyhood mischief, goldfish are the forces of nature, and then there are the nuns. Nuns are what I am most frequently asked about. Why do I paint them? What do they mean?
I began painting nuns in 1995 when questioning my own misconceptions about Catholicism. I soon came to realize that other people had preconceptions about who nuns were, and what they should be doing and because of this, the viewer projects their own ideas about the nuns into the painting. In truth nuns are multi-dimensional people, some are brave, many of them are heroes. They are an important part of our history. Their black and white habits are a direct connection to our medieval past and they make the perfect foil for the dramas that unfold in my paintings.
My strength is in my dyslexia, because I think outside the box and look at things from a different perspective. My paintings are reconstructions of the real world that people never imagined. More like memories than reality, my paintings are like dreams. They are memories for other people.
