Fine Art Finger Painting that Energizes Your Space

I strive to convey my own journey of thoughts, concepts, feelings and ideas through my artwork. I hope to connect, to resonate, to attune and potentially amplify feelings, ideas and concepts in my gracious viewer. Love it or hate it... but please feel... connect in either way. Apathy is a poison that ruins minds, people, families, communities, nations and the world.

Since I was an early teenager I've always first and foremost identified as an artist – a painter. Like most however, I knew I had to work a “practical” career in order to make it. Having come from a seemingly always financially strapped family... I joined the US Army to have a way to pay for a college education. It was in the Army that I learned to live as a leader... to take risks when necessary, even on myself. I always considered my past career and entrepreneurial endeavors as a means end to allow me the gift to paint full time when I “retire”. Life didn't go exactly as planned... as it seldom does. Just before our son was to be born I was laid off, yet again, from my technology career due to the down turn in the economy and became the stay at home parent. I am usually an ever optimist and try to reflect and find the positive in situations. So, during my son's napping it took a lot of soul searching, meditation and honest reflection that I came to expunge expectations of others and expectations of myself and just be. My son taught me that I had to live in the very moment and be wonderfully grateful for the small and wondrous things in life. Through that I started to see the world differently... experiencing sunlight on flower petals with as much glee as my son did and I started to really look, find and see miracles in the every day life. With a bit of courage and a lot of green tea I started to use his naps to paint. Most of my figurative artworks to date are from the walks I took our son on around Long Beach's beach, El Dorado Park, Belmont Shore, Malibu and Catalina Island from our scuba diving lessons and more. And my more recent works are a reflection of our now home in Columbus, Ohio.

I strive to reflect my surroundings while also reflecting my values of spiritual, environment and social consciousness. I've began to feel truly alive living in purpose. I began to let go of the past and remain present in the now with eyes on tomorrow. It's a work in progress but through this experience, through painting, I've transformed. Through the mishaps of the economy and the sage wisdom of an infant / toddler, who demanded I be in the present, I've began to feel that my innermost identity and my external reality are aligning. That is a awesome feeling that is near indescribable. That feeling led me to doing more abstract work, in an attempt to connect and convey my inner world to my outer world.

I finger paint acrylic directly onto canvas. I don’t use brushes or other tools. They make me feel disconnected from my work and hinder my creative energy flow to the canvas. The paint’s own texture, viscosity and volume at the time of each stroke influences the outcome as it rolls, slides, jettisons or gets dabbed off my finger and hands onto the canvas to be fixed in place.

I desire to be known as a Fine Art Finger Painter or perhaps a “peintre par des doigts” first and foremost. That is why my current and planned work spans landscape, seascape, animals, portraiture, florals and abstracts as subject matter. I strive to create a strong sense of painting style that regardless the subject matter the art appreciation community may be able to recognize my work by my method and style of finger painting. This approach allows me the full creative freedom to explore new subjects and further develop my technique – thus not getting pigeon holed into just one subject or artistic style.

I've been “putting myself out there” by creating and publishing live artist painting videos. I show my full process, including what others might consider blunders. The final work is what you see, but the videos show how I visually arrived. I hope that by doing so you might connect with me and my art further than a mere art catalog can provide. Thank you for your time and your sincere thoughtful consideration of my artwork for your sacred space... be it the living room, office, meditation room or other.