Compact Design Bonne Chance

My work often explores important symbols in my personal history. I have had a fascination with symbols for many years, in particular common symbols found in folk traditions around the world. Many of these symbols are represented across my work, including snakes, hands, eyes, four leaf clovers, suns, moons, lightening bolts, birds, rainbows and iconic quilt patterns, to name a few. I have also adopted a set of my own personal monikers that occur repeatedly in my work. My work elevates mundane, ubiquitous, and sometimes obsolete objects into conversation with symbols from nature and the supernatural in colorful, organized arrangements and simplistic, graphic paintings. I am particularly interested in eliminating complexity and detail in my subject matter, and in stripping things down to their essential forms.