About me
I grew up in the house of my dustbowl farmer grandpa. Nature was always close to us, even here in the concrete biome of Los Angeles.
My first memory was of a confused baby opossum he'd found in our garden. Dangling from his finger, it reached out and grasped my thumb with a tiny hand very much like my own. The sense of awe and empathy I felt in that moment has permeated my creative mind to its depths. My art focuses on animals as individuals with complexities and emotions that rival our own, and often place them as symbols and allegories of our faceted human existence. My work varies to my mood and inspiration: painting realistically and developing scientifically like James Gurney, designing comics and graphics in a simple, reductive style like Charlie Harper, frenetic and immediate story sketching like Joan Sfar, or simply knitting, whittling, or building to feel a connection a to simpler time in our collective history.. |