For me, painting is a spiritual, psychological and physical practice. Figure and place play an autobiographical role in my latest body of work. Questions as real and elusive as the watery settings I am compelled to paint are sometimes answered. Through my work I offer a personal perspective while reaching for a greater understanding of the larger world.
I am fascinated by the elements of nature and shifts of time and space. I often realize that I am painting space: earth, water and what lies within. I explore how, as physical beings, we move though life. While I work, I step into an inner consciousness, often remembering my dreams, reaching for a place of greater connection.
Time and again, I pull away a layer to reveal what lies beneath. I love the mystifying quality of working with oils, they bring elements beyond my powers to the process of painting. Whether I am working in oils or more containable materials, I try to listen to what the work tells me to do.
At a certain point in the development of a piece, it begins to grow on it's own. Keeping in contact with this feeling is key but when it is lost it can sometimes be found later in some other manifestation. When resolved the painting becomes whole within itself while simultaneously holding a space in the larger world.
