My impetus for painting is the attempt to capture the emotional impact of the beauty I see in the world (and especially in nature) in the medium of paint. I want to share that emotional impact with the viewer. My paintings are the fruits of intense passion.
When I paint, I am trying to capture a certain energy state on canvas or paper. This "energy" is difficult to define and explain, and it can't be proven, but I am certain that it exists. I am striving as much to generate this energy as I am thinking in artistic categories like color, form and composition - if not more. As I've strained to will energy onto a canvas, I've often found paint self-organize in remarkable and wonderful ways. Yes, there is something very mysterious, almost magical to me in the act of painting.
The works on this Web site give testimony of my explorations of the "energetic" potential of different media - Oil, different kinds of water color, gouache, acryllic and ink. The attempt to create energy ties all the different styles of my work together, and it also subsumes different kinds of abstraction.
Abstract Painting is traditionally divided into two categories. Abstraction that is still in some measure representational, and abstraction that is completely non-representational and self-referential. My work straddles these two kinds of abstraction, but falls mostly between them. I am fascinated by the idea that a painting can repesent or mean something beyond itself, without being clear what that meaning is - often even to the painter him- or herself.
I hope that these works reflect and transmit, even to a degree, the exhilaration and joy I felt when I created them.