Artist Statement

As an artist, I am drawn to the extraordinary inherent in the seemingly ordinary ; reflections, shadows, rain…. elements that shift between solid and amorphous, positive and negative, natural and unnatural. I do feel compelled to show a bit of context to lightly tether the subject matter to reality….to walk the line between representational and abstraction.

I work in oil and strive for a translucent quality. I also embrace the different stages of a piece; perhaps dragging the paint at the “sticky” phase , rubbing back to an original underglaze, or using a subtractional method in wet paint on dry. I probably remove and destroy as much as I apply and create.

The alchemy of the process is important to me. It becomes a sort of metaphor for the subject matter portrayed.