The Faces Series began in 2009 with the intent to express through line and color the uniqueness of each individual.  Using only my imagination as a guide, I'd just let the figure emerge in the moment.

Rather than painting what our mainstream media cultivates as acceptable, beautiful, normal, popular, or not, I am reaching beyond those images in a way that may seem bizarre at first glance.  Taking the viewer out of what we perceive as real can evoke a response to emotional elements within the painting.

I was always surprised by what I had pulled out of my hat and my own reactions.  Sometimes the conditions of the day -- weather, emotions, events, feelings, desires -- would clearly be reflected in the figure.  Other times it was more like having bumped into a new friend and got to know him or her a little through simply listening.

The series is continuing and will be ongoing until I run out of fresh ideas.