I am attracted to the way things come together in light and space — those visual intersections and occlusions. At the core of my painting is the moment the scales fall from my eyes and I see through and around my thoughts to what is before me.  This is perhaps the driving force behind my interest in painting from observation. My objective is to convey this experience in the abstract language of shape, color and paint. 

The visible world is in flux. It is shifting; it is incomprehensible. It passes through the eyes, brain and nervous system and out to the hand that holds the brush. Organizing what is seen into a rectangle, whether to use line, shape, value, color or some combination of these elements, is the work. The decisions made, and the resulting paintings, are personal and intuitive. The paintings talk back to us, as we look at the trail of them left in the wake of this process. As Francis Bacon said, “Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on the canvas.”