Artist Statement

Painting brings me to give shape to those lingering, 
​persistent emotions that are sensed, yet still not recognized.  

They may have taken up their restless waiting 
after a confusing incident, a passionate exchange, 
seeing something upsetting, or witnessing a sublimely tender event.  

I paint now without needing to know where I’m going. I begin with no plan, no sketches,
no preconception. I look at the colors laid out on my pallets and feel an inclination toward one, a leaning, an attraction – and it begins. A mark is made, and the next in relation to ​the first, and so forth and so on.
 
This method is both quiet and fervent, creative and destructive. I apply layers and
wipe them off until I am moved into that intuitive nonverbal flow where the expression
of the subconscious begins and the emotional content arrives. In this state, I work from
a vocabulary honed from years of painting from nature and studying other artists' works. Color and tone, line and shape, edges and paint, thick and thin form a composition in a 2D place. 

And then when the painting’s all done, like Agnes Martin, I ask my brain, ‘Well – what do you think?’