My paintings are directly informed by the Impressionists/Abstract Expressionists. I best express my most passionate realities, (the story beneath ordinary everyday life things), producing on canvas much of what people feel when they get religious.. I tightrope my way in without a net underneath, looking for spatial relationships right away; the color finds the shape, creates the volume between colors. How I place shapes together becomes the structure, ‘(where’ they exist in space in relationship to each other). The picture plane in the paintings changes constantly through the volume that color creates, (in a constant state of relational movement). What one thinks is coming forward then shoots back in relationship to something else coming forward. Each of my paintings represents a crystallized chunk of formal experience, while being very personal at the same time. My paintings are earthy, rock-like, and weighty, and yet they have in them the rhythm of the sea. I am a nature painter; the nature “out there” coupled with my own internal landscape. My inner finds the equivalent “out there.” Each painting has immediacy to it, but takes time to complete. The painting is the consequence of technique and skill brought about by the concept.
