My Ethos

Painting is a peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. It’s a dance with a blank canvas and a spiritual essence. I focus on movement, texture and light. My renderings focus on emotive effect, rather than manifesting a sense of true physical space. I see shape, color and tone. Then I find those that will make the work alive and vibrate. I look to art for a direct experience. I revel in the drag, the smear, the splash and flow of liquid color, in the physicality of the strokes. The shapes and hues assert themselves and interact with one another, as if in conversation. What I am seeking in painting is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious and the instinctive. I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I think about life.”