From the artist's statement:

At age five, I began drawing pictures with a sense that they were art—simple images in uncomplicated settings.  Much of my visual art still exhibits that tendency.  I paint a lot of faces—portraits and masks.  “Contemporary folk artist” is what I call myself; some have categorized me as an “outsider” artist.  That’s fine with me.  I paint because I have the urge to do so.  It fills an empty room in my human experience.  I love it when one of my paintings does the same for someone else.