Sobre el Artista

I've been working as a full time professional artist since 2003. My original works and fine art giclee prints are in private and corporate collections in over 30 countries around the world. I often work one on one with individuals who are personally choosing artwork for their own private spaces in their homes/offices. I also have close working relationships with several interior design firms in the U.S. and abroad who help their clients find the perfect piece of art for their interior design projects. I have been blessed to work on many corporate projects as well from medical offices and hospitals, to law firms to veterinarian offices, colleges, restaurants, movie theatres, department stores, television, motion pictures and more. Some of my corporate projects include working with many of Nordstrom's Department stores across the U.S. to create original mixed media pieces for their Savvy Departments. In 2014 I worked with the creating mixed media pieces for the Bar/Restaurant chain Bar Louie. My work was chosen by actress Sigourney Weaver to be used as set dressing in one of her movies Chappie that came out in 2015. I provided artwork for another major motion picture as well by Nicholas Sparks, titled the Longest Ride. My work was on the HGTV hit House Hunters and also seen in the hit FX animated television series Archer (in seasons 1 through 5). ARTIST STATEMENT It is difficult for me to talk about the process of my art. I am not entirely sure why that is but discussing why and how I do what I do has always made me uncomfortable. I think in part it is because to me the creation of art is a very personal and emotional process at least in regards to my abstract paintings which are the majority of my work. Attending art shows has always been a bit awkward because the majority of the time I’m dreading answering all the questions asking my ‘why’ I do what I do. It seems most artists love to talk, sometimes in depth, as to what they are trying to convey through their art and what compels them to make it. That is not the case for me. The reality is when I am painting one of my abstracts or assembling my abstract collage & mixed media pieces I am really not thinking, I am just ‘doing’. To me it is a very automatic process, like breathing. You don’t tell yourself ‘breathe’, it just happens. Naturally, instinctively, easily. I do not hold an art degree, nor did I attend any type of art schooling. I am a self-taught artist who has drawn, colored, and painted since as early as I can remember. Art was an escape for me as a child, it was a retreat for me during a part of my life where I had severe health issues, and it is still a covert for me today. Creating art brings me an internal peace that is hard to describe. Even while working on my abstract paintings, which can be a very tumultuous process that can drag me through a wide range of emotions, it still ends at a place of stillness and quietude. The most frequently asked question I receive is why and when did I start incorporating scripture into my abstract paintings? This question is one that is much easier for me to answer. When my grandmother, my father’s mother, passed away in 2003 I was given a bible. The bible was given to my father by his employer on the news of her passing and he in turn gave it to me. I was raised Catholic and had opened a bible several times in CCD classes and church but never had my own bible and definitely never really sat and ‘read’ the words. I found such comfort and peace in reading many of the scriptures that I decided to share the words in my paintings. I continue still, 12+ years later, to share the scriptures that speak to me in the hopes that they reach others who may feel comfort from the same words.