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Artist Statement

I paint because what I express through it, is who I’ve become. My heart and my emotions are conveyed in the images. Color, line, and texture are personal statements expressing how I feel about what I’m seeing. Most of the time, it is realistic, but not literal. When I paint, it is because I’ve been moved by the play of light and color upon the land. This southwestern landscape has moved me like no other place, probably due to its uniqueness in its natural desert palette and expressing lay of land. Its moodiness has vitality which both energizes and calms, and as the two emotions mix, it produces a third inexpressible feeling stirring me to paint.

My process is dictated solely by my subject matter. It is not at all selective or arbitrary. The image before me speaks in its own language and tells me exactly what it wants. I paint on a variety of surfaces which include paper, sandpaper, treated masonite, as well as wood. The surface is about texture more than anything else, which allows the rest of the process to emerge. I often will lay initial layers of color down, and like an oil painter, I then wet them with torpor water to establish abstract patterns of lights and darks on top of which the image is born. A layering of color begins at this point, until the layers and textures of color convey what I need to say. I keep the colors fairly true to what I’m seeing, except for a little posh, which conveys a slight touch of fantasy and a secret world for my viewer. I hope my paintings invite my viewer in, behind my eyes, so I can share with them what I see and feel.