About the Work

Skulls entered my work gradually.

Not as symbols I chose, but as forms that kept returning.

Again and again, when I tried to paint anything else, bone appeared. Structure. Emptiness. The architecture beneath the face.

Over time I stopped treating them as images of death and began to understand them as vessels. The skull is what remains when everything unnecessary falls away. It is the simplest shape of a being. It holds memory without expression, history without story. It is both intimate and anonymous.

Working with skulls became less an aesthetic decision and more a way of listening.

Each one marked a threshold in my own life. Illness. Loss. Relationship. Descent. Periods when something familiar dissolved and a different self had to emerge. The paintings began to function like maps of those passages, recording psychological and spiritual climates rather than illustrating ideas.

Only later did I recognize how naturally they aligned with the symbolic languages I had been studying for years: depth psychology, Taoist medicine, Hermetic philosophy, the Tree of Life, dreamwork, and the imaginal traditions that treat image not as decoration but as a form of knowledge.

In this way the skulls became companions rather than objects.
Places to project onto.
Places to listen through.
Forms in which psyche could speak.

They are not meant to represent death.
They represent what survives transformation.

Background

I was trained classically in fine art in New York City, studying at the High School of Art & Design, the School of Visual Arts on a full scholarship, and the Art Students League, later apprenticing with painters Max Ginsburg and Irwin Greenberg. Years spent copying master drawings at the Metropolitan Museum shaped my eye for structure, anatomy, and form.

Alongside this visual training, I pursued Chinese medicine and built a long clinical practice working directly with the body and its stories.

The studio and the clinic have informed each other ever since.

One works with image.
One works with tissue.
Both work with transformation.

Invitation

If you are drawn to symbol, to depth, or to the quieter language beneath ordinary life, you are welcome here.

These works are not meant to explain.

They are meant to accompany.