The 2-D wall art I create is the easiest of course for me to make, but not as much fun as the wall sculptures. Nonetheless, I strive to give each painting personality. I love painting animals, birds, sea creatures, beautiful koi fish and other interesting life forms that have unique features that I can highlight in each painting. Through the tricks I have learned in over two decades of professional painting , I have learned to give even a flat painting a feeling of movement through texture, shading and composition.

I do everything I can NOT to have to stick to two dimensions. I think in 3D, and I want my art to go there too as much as possible. I often have the subject coming out of the painting onto the frame, or add clay to it, or resin layers for water, or whatever else I can think of. This could be in response to an art teacher in one of the few classes I took…I’d drawn a rather wonderful (I thought) flower, but apparently it strayed too close the to edge of the paper, so he circled it a bunch of times in red pen. I have never forgotten that, or forgiven it, I guess! So now I make it a deliberate choice to burst out of the margins! Take that, teacher.