I am a painterly collage artist who likes to reinvent images and their meaning that I search out from various sources. I look to the internet, popular periodicals and magazines to lift and collect images that I work with. In my current series I am using the images gathered from 3D animated sources which I have displaced from their film intention and torn apart and put back together and collaged into a 2D painting.   I  enjoy the idea of taking something born out of a highly technical and electronic foundation and stripping the creative process to the bare essentials of cutting and pasting and paint application. I am also recycling old torn up works from the bin of “unsuccessfuls” and exploring strange juxtapositions with these creating new characters, meanings and scenarios, within an unintended environment. My studio process involves layering techniques incorporating photo collage, collaged bits of past paintings on paper, oil and encaustic; creating dense, sculpted three dimensional forms and an overlapping internal depth of space.