Bio

Where is life? Where is the fleeting moment that should last a thousand lifetimes? Perhaps my paintings can inspire a thought, a feeling, a memory of something beautiful; breathing forth life; enshrining a celebration of something wonderful. My landscapes and floral watercolors are an aspiration to such ideals.

 

The journey

I was born in one of the most remote locations on earth. Deep in the forests of Hawaii, a non-traditional upbringing afforded me many opportunities for creative expression: building forts in the jungle, defeating dragons in the wild Ohi'a trees, bringing new people and places to life through pencil and paper. It was magical, full of beauty and wonder, and I took this for granted.

Sketches and drawings were magnificent to me. In many ways, I thought an unfinished sketch was a sort of masterpiece of its own, a glimpse into a thought at the time when the conception of the thing seemed glorious in-and-of itself. I still feel the same inclination to this day. There's a strange beauty in the incompleteness of a thing; where the color hasn't been added yet and all that tells the story is a line to represent the bones of a bird or bricks of a magnificent castle. Yet, in my teen years, I received a few watercolor pencils, and so I found a new way to express the incomplete in a more full and complete way.

I have experimented with other media over the years, and yet, I'm still so drawn to watercolor. To me, it expresses the balance of the moment, where life springs forth from nothing and begins a story without end.

 

The artistic vision

My current vision is a beautiful mixture of the expression of abstraction where the energy and feelings of the pigments express themselves, mixed with the detailed resemblance of the object itself; a celebration of the object and an inspiration from the moment. It seems that the movement of my day is the merging of abstraction with the intricate details of the objective. My personal journey has brought me here, and I excitedly anticipate capturing even one moment of the complex wonders of life.