Why do I make art? I suppose, because it's all I've ever done. I worked in the business of advertising long enough to be put out to pasture, and as the pasture goes, you either eat grass or change gears. I chose fine art. In changing, you don't necessarily go from first to third and in my case I stayed somewhat to the process which worked in selling product and began making images which were familiar, but not overly, in a context that others might see another way of looking at the familiar.

When making my art, I think about images. Sometimes an image would come from something I read, a remembrance from the past, television or just something cliche and then just let the elements of design happen and when finished, have something original. Whether the art is original or not, you've got to think it is original and that possibly other artists could learn something from it. There are times when I feel there has to be a message and times when it just has to have beauty, but always in some way unique. In my Early Work, the first images on the site, I was concerned with things relevant; power, religion, sex, celebrity, health and the environment. A body of work, some pieces two dimensional, some three dimensional, I feel is cohesive.

Someone familiar with the selling of art after seeing my work remarked that I didn't work in series. Having started somewhat late in pursuing fine art, I felt working in series was time consuming for one concept. I felt after producing the first, everything after was a matter of design and what you would have in the end would be siblings of the initial piece. But, I said "What the hell." and produced the Fingerprint Series. Where fingerprints have depth, and already working with sandblasting, it seemed the obvious method of creating that depth on a much larger scale. Within that scale, I recognized an image which looked to be landscape, hence the manipulations of that image to produce the five landscape paintings. The other five fingerprint paintings are just great images. Well, there were no siblings but more or less cousins and distant relatives and I decided they were quite good and the time spent was worthwhile after all, with something relevant in the last fingerprint, Whitemanspeak, another painting about the gambling industry, the first being Graffitus Gambolus.

The Tartan Series is a result of painting a portrait of my mother, a Scot. Upon painting the tartan sash she wore for a Scottish women's organization, I saw the possibilities in weaving bands of color perpendicular within each other, the first paintings staying close to the tartan with later paintings moving more toward the abstract, dabbling in the footsteps of another with Double Dripper and something relevant with Shredded Tartan and Diary Tartan.

The Research Study Series is a result of answering an advertisement looking for someone healthy for a 32 day study on sleep. After completing the study and told I was an excellent subject, I later went into a 10 day study on sleep deprivation. The five pieces shown are a result of those studies.

The crosses? The cross is old. Art makes it new. Art is what I do. I don't have a choice.