creative Statement

The purpose of my artwork is to engage, advance and fulfill the impulse to understand the stirring mysteries of aestheticized human form.

I aspire to venerate the Human Figure through an imaginative manner of drawing and painting. I seek a profound grasp of its majestic framework, ultimately, and I hope to communicate an intangible presence of humanity through the miraculous art of representation.

Teaching STATEMENT

Drawing is the key to developing visual wisdom.

The study of drawing must undergird all media – for the purpose of absorbing the most prescient, transcendent creative principles. Drawing and painting should be integrated into, and responsive to, each individual’s identity – the personal equation. Artistic engagement is meant to be methodologically enabling, rather than method-dependent, because of the self-revelatory nature of study, which generates from intelligent approaches. Students aspire to draw and paint on their own terms, and the framework of their studies must remain uplifting, deeply focused, instinct-nurturing, and guided by a passionate, capable communicator.

Drawing and painting the Human Figure is vital for creative transcendence, through contemplative practice and the aim to express.

The Human Figure, arresting and glorious, foments a nearly boundless and inexhaustible cache of educational, artistic principles and disciplines to study. Those intrepid students who can extrapolate the profound ideas of concept and visualization that are elemental to the human body, will be able to amplify them and speak for our age. They will emerge and consecrate a world of vigorous creativity, driven by a self-wrought, aesthetic philosophy. With fine teaching, growth may be sparked by exploring the sublime design of the human organism, which can inspire students to action, realizing the figure in themselves, as well as how precious, evolving and fleeting their own creative time on this earth will be.

Drawing and painting as visual, accessible artforms, are universal modes of communication across cultures, civilization, and time.

Teaching drawing and painting in an international setting to students who are beset with the complexities of language barriers, affirms the universality of artistic training. Visual metaphor can expand a student’s industry, and is one of the most resonating teaching tools in the arts. A student’s motivation for learning must never ignore, nor cease to respect, the rich history of each culture. Museums place students face to face with the same eternal questions of existence as their ancestors. Art students should identify with their predecessors, who lived imperfect and unfulfilled lives of their own. The masters were legends because they crystalized imagery that speaks for humanity, to people who do not yet exist.  ultimately, a profound and ongoing dialog on “why” should underscore each daily lesson on “what”, and “how”.

It is my honor to help in the above, in whatever way I can.

Thank you for reading my statements.