The primary intention of my work is to open avenues of emotion and thought. I paint intuitively, guided by dynamic interrelationships, connecting them to experience, place and time. A painting begins with anything of interest; I’ll notice a shape, texture or color, and use it as a starting point for the work. I imagine these impressions in a different context, a created reality, which then becomes the painting itself.

I’m attracted to that which is enigmatic, paradoxical and transcendent. I admire the Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic, that beauty is imperfect, impermanent, incomplete. In painting, I use visual language to speak of transience, decay and the natural order of things seen and unseen.

In working with an endless variety of geometric configurations, I create relationships among shapes, color fields and edges. My process involves layering, melting, dripping and manipulating encaustic paint on panel. A complex interplay occurs between material, visual recall and contemplation.

Creative expression is the poetry of life- a record of one’s dedication, obsession, meditation and reason.