Artist's Statement
Follow the paint. For me, the hours in the studio, the discipline of showing up again and again, and the frustrations of not quite? Getting it? Are all worth it when in the midst of moving the paint around something appears and I say? Yes! This is where I want to be? Then I explore with paint and brushes, palette knife, pencils, scrapers and scratching tools. If I am lucky and can hold my intentions loosely enough, the painting itself takes over.
This is the process that works best for me. Over the course of the past year, it has led me into places of childhood, new approaches to landscape, and an exploration of abstract forms.
The results are paintings that are figurative or abstract, whimsical or more serious, describing a world where images are not bound by the rules of logic and experience is not reducible to linear thinking.