Artists Statement
I make art to create and express a personal vision. The colors and symbols that I use seem, by their repetition, to be a part of my visual language.
These elements help me to explore and define ideas and views that I find compelling. It is my hope that the viewer also finds a symbiotic connection with my imagery.
To reveal or expose something of one's inner self is a generous and courageous act. My work is a composite of often repeated images, marks and color combinations that are specific to me and reveal my own language of art making. I use these modes of communication to ask questions, investigate ideas or reach some level of realization and clarity.
I love to paint on the canvas or board and move paint around with a large tool that prevents me from creating defined forms until I recognize a starting point. That starting point is a recognition decision specific to my own visual language. Like elements in a dream, as odd and disconnected as the dream may seem, those elements are parts of one's personal sense of reality, living in a place where intuitive decisions reside.
The current show at Vivo Contemporary Art Gallery is called Whispered Secrets. It is a series whose focus is the layered surface. Some paintings have images that place them in the industrial present and others are elusive of time, place or depth of field. Because it is in the process of painting where I gain insight and inspiration, I want the process to be evident to the viewer. A layered field of vision reveals the artists hand and hints of shared memories, insights and whispered secrets.