The main theme found in my artwork is community. I am interested in how people use their relationships with one another to build on their own identity as well as to influence the behaviors of those around them. The aggravated playfulness of my large-scale oil pastel drawings create archetypical portraits of specific types of individuals which, when put together in groups, portray segments of communities and their relationships with one another. I accomplish this by using an accessible visual language along with refined organic forms, text, patterns and costuming to lure viewers in and create a relationship with my work based on shared experience. Typically I will use a single pattern as a backdrop to unify a body of work and identify the overall theme of that community and then let the figures, objects and narratives define the
