About

I am in love with making art. My process reflects an informed intuition developed over a lifetime of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. It all stems from my love of drawing. When it flows, it's like breathing. I rely on my hand, eye, and some intuitive sense to open a dialogue with the emerging artwork. As a piece evolves it can be quite a surprise. The challenge is to keep the the work from falling into the abyss. It’s an experimental dance with the materials. It’s all part of the process.

I was an Art History major in college and that rich background has set the foundation of my artistic life. Throughout the years I have explored the push and pull between representation and non-representation. I started out as a sculptor so my paintings had a natural volumetric orientation. As a painter, I focused for many years on representational subjects from an abstract reference point, letting the materials speak. My love for lyrical abstraction has set me on my recent path. Printmaking has been an important aspect of these aesthetic pursuits. Monoprints, being particularly painterly, suit my temperament and process. I continue to draw quick sketches from life, to keep my hand and eye working together.

There are different aspects of my process that tie my abstract and representational work. I am always searching for the underlying structure in each painting, be it a recognizable image or a collection of lines, shapes and colors dancing across a surface. I also see the connection in my mark-making and in my palette between the earlier and more recent work. For now, I am interested in setting the lines and colors free, to bring them to the surface to form a different cohesive whole. The ultimate goal is to share something ineffable and hard to define with the viewer, conveyed in a visual language. Art is the ultimate subject, with its power to speak to us on its own terms.