“Motion, marks, color and the physical act of applying paint are at the forefront of my art. My work is intuitive―made in a gestural manner. I present a visual and an intellectual challenge for you to create your own visual narrative journey.”

Mark making, color, the subconscious and the physical act of applying paint are central to my artwork. I want to confront the viewer with a visual challenge, large or small—a dare to question themselves and what they are seeing and give them an opportunity to bring themselves into the picture. Color, speed, temperature and spirit are always at the forefront of my art making. My more recent work moves in the gap of abstraction and representation. I enjoy playing within the boundaries of imagery, that gap between what is realistic and what is abstracted. As a painter I work intuitively. I rarely doubt the direction a picture takes as I am working on it. I have learned to trust that the painting will unquestionably reveal it's own direction. It is always a self-portrait.

Experimentation without rules, a free and open platform drives my creative process. Color, mark making and energy in motion leads the viewers eye through my work. It is a subconscious creative process. It is a place where you start painting and completely lose yourself in the work, the place you always want to be.

The effects of the 2020 pandemic can be seen in my work prior to and after. My pre-pandemic style of painting is a whirlwind of free motion, small marks with a speed and tempo and loosely painted. Some paintings were done on two sides of a clear substrate, a newer method of working. Another style, post pandemic is a hard-edged detailed image produced at the beginning of the chaos. This tight and time-consuming series was a subconscious adjustment in my work. It is a reaction to a "locked down," slowed down world with nowhere to go. This shift was unplanned; it happened by itself. There is a slower tempo to this work, detailed and done in a much more precise and time-consuming process.