UNTAMABLE

This collection of paintings is loosely based on characters from the Winnie the Pooh stories and the untamable nature of children and animals. Each of the characters in A.A. Milne’s Pooh series is beset with their own set of ticks and neuroses that make them endearing as characters. (Rabbit with his OCD or Eeyore’s chronic depression, ect.) Children and their wild imagination and their yet untamed nature endear us in a similar way. The paintings in this show play with these themes. 

"The fundamental nature of my aesthetic rests in the use of simple quiet compositions that visually communicate emotion within the precepts of narrative realism: renderings of ordinary objects, subtle glimpses of everyday life.  These images are collectively reflected on stillness, comfort, nostalgia and cultural identity in relationship to food."