My work is informed by personal ideologies of the spiritual, the socio-political and family, the things that define who I am. Oftentimes, creating a pleasing composition requires turning chaos into order using both additive and subtractive methods. The process is repeated layer by layer as I respond in free-sweeping gestures that emanate from Spirit.

While my work is formally intuitive, it is calculated in its design and plotting, playing juxtaposed elements and relational situations against one another in the layering and building of the planar surfaces.  This is the continuation of a fascination with color as form that began in my childhood.                                                                   

The surface is where I and the other meet, where porousness allows for give and take.  Paintings are inquiries into the potency of a surface, the capacity of color and texture to both emote and conceal.

I make collages to learn about the meaning-making possibilities of pictorial composition. I make color field works to learn about the meaning-making power of color relationships. The two pursuits overlap and inform each other.  Like many artists, I react strongly to color and contrast, and readily see and create metaphor. I never tire of these things.  How far will this sensitivity take me? I have been testing to find out.