My art is primarily about spirituality and sensuality.  It also encompasses humanness, passion, justice, dignity, nature, peace and most importantly love.  The spiritual represents the soul and the sensual represents physicality.  I believe that these two realms must interconnect and unite positively together in order for the whole world to evolve.  Art is a way for bringing these two forces together and demonstrating their mystical power.  Therefore, I believe in the ultimate divinity of my art and the purpose that it serves which is to enlighten, to empower and to embrace the world at our highest level.   I have been for many years exploring faces and figures.  I am particularly intrigued by faces because they represent humanity.  I am interested in the whole world of faces from all cultures and races because of their tremendous beauty and grace.  I have also been fascinated by masks and the concept of illusion. The powerful mystery of the mask to hide and to enchant is richly enigmatic. I have been fortunate to have travelled extensively around the world and have therefore had the opportunity to visit many people and a vast range of cultures. Due to my own personal beliefs and respect for the divine, I have also developed angelic imagery and pursued mysticism. I want my art to be powerful, passionate and provocative so I like to use rich colours, expressive brushstrokes and dramatic imagery. I have  recently begun to explore flowers, sky and water imagery as I am amazed by the beauty and sacred tranquility of these themes.  Nature’s tenderness, expansiveness and powerful universality enriches and calms the soul. I have been greatly fascinated in developing my abstract landscape paintings and expanding various techniques with this subject matter. I like to layer and lift the paint onto the canvas while maintaining the beauty and purity of various colors, values and tones.  I see myself as a painter, yet I enjoy all mediums of visual expression including mixed media.  I am also a poet and love the expressions of this genre.  My life and art are a continual journey of exploring spirituality, sensuality, the raw powerful beauty of the bitter and the delicate fragility of the sweet, yet most importantly love and kindness. I believe that it is very important to always strive to see the beauty in the ugly, for everything is a gift from God and part of one’s spiritual growth. I will leave you with one of my poems: