Art is self-portrait. I try to portray my best intentions. My paintings are loose interpretations of my response to life. My work is a communion between subject and self. My experience of communion can most easily be translated into color. The movement of line and brush expresses my gaze’s touch. I do not wish to overwhelm my viewers. Therefore, a light hand is effective in allowing the audience to comprehend my experience.
The method of my painting captures what I see. A good painting is as much observed into existence as it is painted into existence. Paint is liquid, spontaneous, uncontrollable, and for me, unpredictable. I like to work with an understanding of my subject, but without an attachment to the process of its capture. Sometimes the paintings work, and sometimes they do not.
I love painting sky. They’re resolution always surprises me. The task is to create a sense of light and represent depth. Creating a good sky happens when I reserve my previous assumptions of how the sky should look. Sometimes while I work, wild colors occur in the painted sky. Often I tell myself this color will be an under painting to be covered over by realism. Later in the painting process, I decide to leave the wildness as it is. The original spontaneous color conveys a truer experience of light and the feeling of surprise when seeing green in the sky