I paint for any number of reasons.  One of the reasons that I can name is to let my unconscious body overtake my conscious, selfish mind.  My thoughts ceased.  There is color.  There is movement.  There is intuition.  It is a good feeling.  The other reason which I wish to name is the satisfaction that a completed paintings brings.  I find that my own paintings appeal to my aesthetic appreciation.  In addition, I am rather curious to see what I will produce.

For the majority of my early endeavors with painting, I painted from my mind.  I wanted to understand those great art pieces of colored canvases in the museums.  I became enamored with the process of taking the potential and making it actual.  I enjoyed to stare at a blank canvas and to think of the infinity of possibility that it could become.  In the end, the canvas became one, the actual.  As time progressed, I began to paint the world, particularly humans.  I like the process of taking the actual transforming it to the potential and then once again turning it to the actual.  I usually paint friends and family.  This takes up most of my work now.  I enjoy it.  I miss my friends.  I miss my family.  Painting them allows them to be a part of my daily life though we may have not seen each other or spoken in some time.

My childhood was spent in a small, rural town in Northern Michigan situated on the shores of Lake Superior.  I miss the woods, the isolation, the lake, and the sounds of the waves.  I received my bachelor's degree from Hope College, where I studied Psychology, Philosophy, and Classical Studies.  Currently, I am in the middle of a two year contract working at the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab in Singapore.  We study how sleep deprivation affects normal people in their ability to attend, remember, and perform other cognitive tasks.  I hope to be able to continue to paint and I plan to pursue further education in the Philosophy of Science and Mind, though, perhaps, I may hope to continue in Cognitive Neuroscience.