Artist's Statement

My paintings are about light, texture and my love of nature. I try to recall visceral moments when one feels the presence of an inner harmony and recreate the same atmosphere during the process of painting. I see the paintings as snapshots of distinct moments when the world seems suspended.

My paintings are not planned or preconceived. I start off with a vague idea and then develop the painting as I go along. Each painting has gone through a series of transformations resulting in a multi layered surface. I have always been fascinated with old walls where peeling paint reveals signs of a former life. Faint suggestions of shapes and colors are visible in the final painting alluding to prior stages. Manipulating the paint on the surface of the canvas or paper is one of the magical aspects in painting. During the process of creating, art can take you from where you started to someplace else and suggest a variety of paths to take. This exhilarating journey is an expression of my emotions and ideas and ultimately my own personal language.

“In The Life of the Mind” the twentieth century German philosopher Hannah Arendt writes of “a timeless region, an eternal presence in complete quiet, lying beyond human clocks, and calendars altogether.” She describes a “small non-time space that exists in the very heart of time, the quiet of the now in our time pressed existence”. I feel an instantaneous bond to these thoughts and find that they express so well the source of a mysterious place within me that sustains my work.

My work is about process, the materiality of paint and most importantly an emotional richness of color. Lately I have been working on a new series of landscapes. These landscapes or seascapes are expressed in a direct and immediate way. Light and form are created intuitively through gestural brush strokes using gesso, charcoal, graphite and oil paint. All the paintings were done in my studio and were an outgrowth of my manipulation of paint used in my non-objective compositions.