I've always loved painting and drawing people. My earlier works focus

mostly on romantic love and loss. There is something compelling about

the idea of love and death that keeps our attention; for example the

classic story of Romeo and Juliette. I titled this show Leibostad, ( a

german word meaning Love/Death,) and I borrowed from some religious

traditions of Christ with a heart exposed. I meant the exposed organs to

symbolise corresponding emotions. My Madonna and Child series also

borrows from religious iconography, with gold leaf halos and the classic

woman with child. I hope to show the divine in the ordinary, and convay

something of the Universal Woman in these works.