I am a painter, working primarily in oils in a broadly figurative context. Max Beckmann once stated, "If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible to the visible. My aim is to get hold of the magic of reality and to translate this reality into painting." I wish to see the time that I inhabit as it truly is, to look out and to look in. I wish to realize a vision as disjointed and alienated as that of any other modern subject; paint with the slow, steady gaze of a Cezanne or Pissaro and the short attention span of a smart-phone user. I aim to negate the dominant ways of seeing imposed by image saturated, market oriented aesthetics and counter it with something that harnesses the tangibility and sense of permanence that the contemplation of nature and the telling of old stories evoke.