My view of art and my identity as an artist have never stopped developing. My interests have evolved, have been endless swapped around, and have continued to surprise me. I am forever a student, and have retained my passion for so long because I cherish the experience of discovering new interests and developing new skills. 

The artistic subjects that most interest me concern creatures: from humans to animals to aliens and monsters. The one true through-line of my varying artistic history has been a gravitation towards living beings. Portraying life forms from real life sparks my interest and insight about them. For example, when I sit to draw a bird from my own world, I find myself wondering about the feelings of the bird, its habits, its movements, its environments. Portraying life forms from my imagination, on the other hand, allows me the liberating experience of total creative control. In my view, figures and characters devised from the imagination represent the most tangible and visceral components of an imagined world—more than any landscape or abstract painting ever could—and the expression of imagination is my main directive in all my art making and art instruction. 

Art should be clean, messy, fast, slow, beautiful, horrific, peaceful, and wild