An Invitation

Oil on Linen. -Professionally framed by Mercury Head Gallery in the US - Premium quality Kiln-dried Pine Stretchers -Deluxe Professional Archival linen by Centurion (OP DLX). Artist's Statement: A cloaked female figure is standing and looking outwards where a bundled baby was left under a group of trees. Is she going to cross over the creek to help the baby? The painting is an invitation to love. In a world inherently insecure, humans often find themselves seeking solace, hope, and moments of transcendence. The world needs beauty, which has the power to transform and influence the lives of people. As an artist, I am interested in the intersection between art, faith, and mystery—offering a relationship through my paintings by evoking a profound aesthetic experience to the viewer. My work explores themes of beauty and the sublime as a pathway to the Divine. I represent these themes through contemplative pieces with objects, figures, or landscapes resembling personal and lived experiences of my search for Beauty, Truth, and Goodness; finding God in different moments. Thus, my paintings are intended to inspire meditative experiences, drawing viewers into an intimate conversation that brings them deeper into and beyond themselves. My art represents what is true about a person, a moment in time, an object or set of objects, or nature. Beauty is truth, and the truth is essential in our lives. As an artist, it is my job to communicate this message to everyone—for I believe that it is a necessity for people to be reminded of what is true, sincere, and honest, by what is beautiful, natural, and sublime, in order to appreciate the world around us. I desire to paint works of art that will ultimately give glory to God, our Creator since He is the source of all beauty and truth—may it be a simple still-life set-up, landscape, or scenes from everyday life. I hope to draw out God's likeness and the divine from the people, the objects, and the scenery that I re-create on canvas. My art shows how the spiritual comes to us. My recent body of work brings together how light signifies a more profound appreciation of the Lord of Light into this dark, insecure, and broken world. In our busy, globalized, and disconnected society, creating this avenue for viewers to pause and re-connect with their hearts and spirits is essential in my work as an artist. Drawing and painting is my way of giving homage to God who created the natural masterpiece, which is the temporal world where we currently reside. It is my goal to provide an experience of beauty and the sacred to humanity. I believe that the world needs beauty through art that transcends, moves, inspires, and elevates humanity to the divine. This is what I envision my art to be in my lifetime: to add beauty to this world by painting imagery in which weary souls can find respite, joy, reflection, and nourishment in by viewing, and ultimately encourage a return to an appreciation of God, beauty and Truth.