Artist Statement

I am increasingly drawn to those works that define the universal in the particular. Interpretation of the current environment and still life render a moment in time of our journey. Focusing on an object’s essence is primarily how I immerse myself into the process – its relationships, history, and symbolism. My childhood family farm and the lush variety of the California harvest are significant influences. I explore the commonalities, preservations, transformations, and gesticulations of the object with the language of paint.

There have been constants in my work – movement, directional lines, meditative observation, and relationship of forms – generally in an abstracted still life genre. What has evolved is the variation of those elements. The journey to the final painting takes shape by the process of layering, glazing, drawing, and scratching into the surface. Over time, environment and sense of present moment have altered my horizontal, circular, inclusive, explosive, and vertical movement.