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I strive to create paintings that arouse emotion or communicate an emotional state--a spirit--of their own. Light and space lead the way. Color and line work together. I let one brush stroke stimulate the next. There are certain images which suddenly take hold and I need to follow along. The excitement and possibilities are in the creation and can only be discovered while working through the choices appearing before me.

 

Even though my paintings are abstract, I try to create paintings out of my own experience and out of my sensations of the perceptible. I hope to evoke impermanence and dynamic movement...a sense of time as you visually move across the painting – side to side, in and out, and top to bottom. Light appears through color from within. Air and space breathe and surround forms.

 

Painting is a window on to my experiences. I always consider inside/outside and tension of canvas edges. The surface plane always takes precedence.

 

I paint multi-color and black and white large scale abstract works on canvas and paper. My work is inspired by a number of sources ranging from nature to the subconscious to the intuitive process of painting itself. Acrylic, watercolor, ink, charcoal and pastels are my primary mediums.

 

I also create mixed media and ceramic sculptures which take ideas expressed above into three dimensional space.

 

My digital photography creates images exploring spatial compositional ideas and stand alone or are used for further exploration and development in my paintings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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