This page exists to demonstrate that I have traditional technical abilities as a painter and fine artist. I’ve shown this through a near scale master copy of the Isleworth Mona Lisa. The original, though disputed, is sometimes attributed to Leonardo da Vinci as an early version of the much more famous artwork, its sister painting, the Mona Lisa.

There is evidence to support this, such as sketches Raphael made after visiting Leonardo, which more closely resemble this work. Some argue that Leonardo only worked on wood panels, and while that is common in many of his paintings, he was also known to experiment and push boundaries, most notably attempting a new fresco technique for his famous work, The Last Supper.

All of this is to say that my current work, both my narrative painting series and the portraits I complete, is a representation of my aesthetic sensibilities within a contemporary practice. The lack of complete realism or full rendering is intentional, and only meaningfully justified because of that technical foundation, much in the same way that a young Pablo Picasso painted beautiful works of realism before evolving into abstraction.