My paintings are light and strange and sometimes sweet. I love ordinary objects, drawings within paintings, and when goofiness undercuts beauty.

I try to paint scenes so plain and yet contemporary that they spark immed-iate recognition: fingers dusty from Cheetos, a frowny face keyed into a car, butterfly socks fluttering on a clothesline. These are the stuff of my life––but heightened and made wonderful in the lusciousness of oil. Each painting employs all of my patience and skill. The most ambitious take hundreds of hours, and this seems to be an important thing; for only through the work of making-beautiful can these paintings skate the edge of serious and funny, their humble subjects turning mysterious and deserving of new consideration.