My work has been described as “mythological realism”. It can be called “realist” in the sense that figures and forms are at least partially recognizable. However these forms inhabit a different space and time, a dream-world where the law of gravity is replaced by the laws of the unconscious.

I depict transformations from human to bird, from arm to wing, from male to female, from larva to dragonfly, from dream to knowledge. For many years I have immersed myself in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and through his stories I explore moments of transformation itself, moments of chaos when all is in flux and new forms are born. This work is about the processes of change in all of us. We take a leap, grow wings, escape one life, emerge into a new self.

In my most recent exhibition, IMMORTAL COILS (May-June 2009) I investigate transformation at its most primitive, involving transparency and permeability of boundaries, mostly in “the depths of the sea for which (our) blood is still nostalgic”.

Some of the works were also exhibited in MIRAR/MIRROR: An Exchange of Gazes (Oct-Nov 2008), a solo show at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Washington DC for which I explored the indigenous myths of the Amazon - discovering stories of magical rebirth, cosmic reptiles, the floods of chaos and creation that paralleled those of the Greek classics.

In my previous exhibition, COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Centaurs and other Losers, (Feb 2008 at Studio Gallery) my interpretations of Ovid acquired a political edge. They centered around the story of Caenis: a tale of persecution, destruction of the landscape, militaristic hubris, gender confusion and above all the desolation and waste of war.