A Central thread that weaves throughout my poetry, paintings and drawings is the idea of opposites: Beauty and ugliness, the sublime and the idiotic, violence, gentle-ness, victory and despair.  My art is a space where these themes meet and coexist exhibiting all there inherent contradictions. The subject matter is often heavily auto-biographical, communicated through a personal symbolism. These metaphors are anchored equally in the constructs of my fictional writings and secondly within my personal struggle to survive a very real mental illness.  Since
1985 I have used this strange brew to produce works both deeply-psychological and emotionally-stirring.