My art celebrates life – up-close, colourful, and bold. I derive my inspiration in painting animals, people, and places from some of what I value in life; not only in the subject matter itself, but also in the qualities portrayed and the emotions evoked.

I think my use of colour was influenced by my childhood, when my brother and I would watch television on an old black and white TV in the basement. We were convinced we could see the images in colour, and could even agree on what the colours were, when asked separately. Now, in an animal's brown fur, I paint the less obvious colours like blue, orange, or purple that I see.