Statement

My paintings are a painterly Colorfield abstraction that is spacious and calm. A painterly and spacious field may appear to be counter-intuitive but this is something I see in the paintings of Freidel Dzubas, Mark Rothko, Jules Olitzky and Richard Diebenkorn; a rich surface with an emphasis on spatial composition.

There is an sensibility of stillness in my paintings; it affords the viewer time to see the smallest of gesture, color, and compositional shifts. Time to relax and exhale.

I want my paintings to connect to people. Although abstract, many viewers of my work make associations to nature, water or sky, and a calmness, and that’s fine. What is of more importance is that they find something beautiful, something they value and find release into. That’s the connection that matters to me, a wordless transmission from the painting to the viewer; as impossible and elusive as that is. An exhalation, spacious and calm.