Little of Each

Artwork Info

Charcoal, conté, and pencil on paper  
22 x 30 in. 
Framing included 
© 2026

I make drawings on paper with simple materials. Through scale and detail, the work strivesfor realism while disregarding any photographic weight of that word. Beginning with the familiarconstruction of classical portraiture, I draw fictitious individuals. Characters that are as rooted inart history as they are nestled among the flora and fauna of the natural world. This sense ofinterconnectedness to our surroundings, along with our past and present, seems sounfortunately out of step in the modern era. We hurtle forward, allowing technologicaladvancements to disavow us of such notions. The discomfort of this inconsistency is the
foundation for drawing something that celebrates inimitable, flawed and fleeting beauty. The fullecstatic bloom of a Bearded Iris only lasts a few days, which isn’t truly so very different from ourown time here. I labor to depict every leaf and blade of grass with the same determination asthe formal subject of all my work, because all of life endures the same cycle of flowering,faltering and finally fading away.