For me painting is absorbing, engaging play. It is an exhilarating exploration of the effects of paint in varying viscosities, applied or removed with unusual tools and forces to discover colors, textures, lines, and illusions. These illusions all work together to emulate the game of life, where the future is unpredictable and the past never completely disappears. Each layer of color is an aesthetic response to the previous ones, working together until the painting’s shadows and forms suggest geological stratification, space, movement, or organic processes that are unknown possibilities in a micro or macroscopic natural environment. The balance of both masculine and feminine elements, sharpness and softness, curves, and angles are present in my work in an attempt to grasp an idealized and cooperative totality. The hand of man may be represented but as an unglorified part, not the center of the universe. Usually, a piece begins as a wild chaotic elemental manifestation, but becomes more organized and accessible as I gingerly approach the important decision to stop.

Since receiving my BA degree from UCSB, I’ve created bodies of work in pastel, collage, digital painting, and presently my acrylic painting is represented by 10 West Gallery in Santa Barbara and ArtPic in North Hollywood.