I began painting in 1984 while in my senior year in college. I was working with enlarged photographs reproduced on canvas in cyanotype, a cynanide-based imaging emulsion which produces photos in tones of blue. After a bit of experimentation in the medium I became dissatisfied with the color limitations and began stretching the canvas and adding color. Soon I abandoned the cyanotype altogether in favor of paint.

Literary and religious themes abound in my work. Since the great bulk of Western art from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance is religious art, it seems unavoidable that it insinuates itself into my work because of the power of its iconography.