Artist Statement
I was raised in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and European regions, and have lived my adult life in the Western United States, and Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean.
I began working as an artist three decades ago in Colorado, and my paintings initially depicted celestial bodies and luminous rings, inspired by the region's night skies. Over time my style evolved to reflect the land in Colorado and the western United States using barbed wire, power lines, and other contemporary realities. In Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean region I created an entire body of work on decay and regeneration.
As an artist whose work is rooted in place, I study how people leave their mark on the land they inhabit. I have done this through a variety of bodies of work, including decay, regeneration, fire, people, animals, factories, boundary making and patterning, and heritage.
In one of my latest projects, "Earthbound," I portray individuals at rest or in their final moments in a beautiful place of their choosing.