April 2026
I make abstract drawings and paintings in a variety of traditional materials. I create the images on paper, board, or canvas in sizes from 3"x 3" up to 32"x 44". The color palette is often black and white but is sometimes intense with vibrant color, as well. My primary method of creating these images is to build forms with repeated series of lines, marks, or gestures while leaving areas of ground untouched.
The forms are inspired by landscapes, human and animal figures, weather patterns and phenomena, cosmology, and everyday objects. The compositions are inspired by my perception of movement and change. When working in color, my color choices are inspired by my emotions and by the colors I notice out there in the world. Inwardly I combine those to come up with combinations using my imagination. While I am inspired by these things and ideas, the process of working is spontaneous and intuitive. The final images are often ambiguous, offering viewers multiple possible conclusions.
In these drawings and paintings I explore the potential that movement, change, and states of energy have for developing expressive organic forms. In my day-to-day life I make an effort to notice the vibrations and reverberations of the living world around me, and during my studio time I work to express my sense of those reverberations. I see this expression as an acknowledgment and recognition of a pervasive consciousness. My process often involves a kind of deliberate gestural imitation of organic growth of plants or animals building bit by bit; sometimes it involves repeated movements that one might recognize as waves. I am motivated by curiosity to see if I can ever understand what is going on here – the ever-changing, never-static world of objects, beings, air, and light – and to see if my expression of it resonates as true within me and with other people. The experiments are ongoing.
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