Pursuit of a simple expression for the complex thought compels me to paint, and lies at the heart of my creating.  I am interested in the unequivocal impact of paint. My work is at once a combination of deliberation and contemplation, balanced by spontaneous movement and gestural mark-making.

My paintings are impressions and abstract explorations of places and experiences that have shaken and shaped me. I am creating a space that is unknown to the viewer, yet still understood, inviting recollection and reminiscence. I am chiefly concerned with stripping the literal elements away, and through subtleties in color, thin washes, opaque marks, intuitive line, and broad calligraphic brushwork, I am seeking to explore how paint can powerfully stimulate or consolidate the compositional space.

My marks and scratches are impulsively rendered, born of a need to follow the imaginative abstractions of my mind. Though my meditations fill everything I create, nothing is planned. I am taken by the paint, and close examination will reveal my wanderings.