My paintings consist of furniture, interior design, décor, and garden/floral themes, but to describe them with that statement alone seems somewhat shallow.
To some degree, I’m actually poking fun at just how seriously we as humans are about how we enhance our environment. Visually, I question just why it is we feel the need to adorn and embellish our living spaces with articles that have really nothing to do with how we physically survive. That in itself though, may be a large part of what makes us human, and perhaps it may be a psychological necessity, quite like the need for an artist to create.

One recurring theme in my work is empty chairs. Funnily enough, most clients who have purchased these see them as “optimistic paintings”, and that’s true for the most part, however, others feel that they are metaphors with an edgy sense of apprehension. It’s as if something is about to happen, like the calm before the storm. This is a real juxtaposition that I quite enjoy.

The bottom line is that my style has evolved through my aim to capture or translate visually, items and themes that I am personally fascinated with, in the way that they seem to vibrate and appear to jump off the canvas, with an almost a 3 dimensional quality.
The paintings are somewhat intense, highly colourful, theatrical, and contain my own blend of humour.  If I were to be perfectly honest, ego aside, my paintings are bits of me. 
 
A lot of thought is given to the placement of items on my canvases. It’s just like decorating a room in every sense, or putting pieces of a puzzle together. However, the fun part is that I get to not only place the furniture and accessories, but design all aspects of them as well. Perhaps it’s a control issue!

Inspiration comes not just from music, which I listen to in the studio, but also from eras and imagery gone by. Fashion that transcends time because it’s all still so modern and fresh today, like furniture, music, décor, theatre, and even literature, from the early to mid-twentieth century, that’s still so current, contemporary, reproduced, highly sought after, and pleases me to no end.
Muses for my work are retro items, decorating magazines, exotic places, horticulture, Mid-century modern, architectural styles, indigenous/Inuit art, and of course, Jazz music.

Give me Paris in the twenties, when expatriates and artists of every genre were breaking all the rules with what society deemed appropriate. The Jazz age when people danced on tables, the ultra cool 50’s when the Rat Pack owned Las Vegas and drank martinis aplenty, the psychedelic 60’s when everything was groovy. The era I was a kid, which would be the 70's, so Dr. Suess, Warner Bros. cartoons, Andy Warhol, and more obvious influences like Picasso, Braque, Matisse and the like,...These are just some in the pot pourri of influences for my work, and why I paint the way I do!