Neo Antiqua says: "Picasso is the grandson of Lascaux. The grandmother of Liechtenstein is named La Parisienne."

Neo Antiqua is a nod to our own ancient origins. It values the people we were and are. It is a statement of connection and unity. I want the viewer to pass by my paintings privately saying, “ I've seen it a thousand times.” Their dismissal is to me the greatest compliment. They see in what I am doing the simple Solomon’s truth, there is nothing new under the sun. I embrace this as a triumph!

Neo Antiqua is for those who speak the language of life. It is destruction. It is resurrection. It is painting without paint. It is a wall without a painting. It is the painting. It is as much about the material as the object. It is the acknowledgement of our own temporary place in the world buy viewing what many would perceive as permanent.

NeoAntiqua was born of the idea that we all connect to those thing that time has done its best to wash away, but endure. Early cultures such as the Mycenaeans, the Minoans and the Etruscans all impacted their ancient contemporaries and although it is an oversimplification of histories confrontations, it is fair to say that when the city states of Greece fell to their conquerors that their society impacted their conquerors, who in turn were conquered and brought with them the traditions and discoveries of their world to a newer one. Who were in turn conquered and brought with them their traditions and discoveries. Those traditions both cultural and Artistic were passed generationally like a giant cipher of culture threw which those things that resonate truth are distilled.

The challenge to us is to acknowledge that those things that happen, those things that seem to reach up and change a culture spontaneously are in fact driven by individuals. For those whose lives we relive today in their actions and beliefs, for those select and great few, for them life is eternal. Like the Pompeiian wall we will fall but for those of great character, they live on in us. It is only by acknowledging the end of ourselves do we acknowledge our potential to live on. Some wonder what the Romans were like or how the ancient world must have been, They imagine something foreign almost inaccessible for us to even imagine. I say, look around they live on in us. The hopes and dreams of fathers and mothers are the same as ours, further they will be the same in the future. You and I are the culmination of societies chronological tug-of-war. The greatest live on in you and I.  And all that this implies.

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