Foliage

The Amazon rainforest had has this baroque density to it, overwhelming and hallucinogenic.  The foliage in my paintings comes from these rainforests. It's my expression of a jungle alive with its' own logic and mythology. In that world, the organic and the fantastical are the same thing. A shape can be a leaf and a creature at once. A shadow can be a spirit. The jaguar, the serpent, and deep blue of the jungles’ insides influenced me as did the tales and legends and the inexplicable. These feelings are in my paintings of flora. I'm describing the density of a place that is potent and magical.