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Artist’s Statement

As an artist there is always something remarkable to see, think about, and question. In my paintings, watercolors, drawings, and mixed media works, I put together objects, ideas, and possibilities to form visual conversations that invite the viewer to participate in new thoughts and visual experiences. Making art is nourishment for me. It’s like eating and breathing. Transforming the visual world as well as exploring imaginative questions and possibilities feeds my curiosity and satisfies my spirit. For me, art is not as much about presenting the answers as considering and identifying meaningful questions and acknowledging the importance of the creative search. This continuing search is the bond between the artist and the work, the work and the viewer, and the personal and the universal.

My work deals with elements of time, space, reflection and sense of place as psychological, metaphorical and experiential concerns. I consider my work a duality of realism and abstraction as well as a marriage of concept and technical understanding. Both amicably coexist in the transformation of idea through working process. Reflections, distortions, vivid colors, and spatial displacements play a major role perceptually as well as metaphorically in my image making and working process. I am drawn to how I can shape meaning and content through combinations of simple elements, reflections, dynamic color and imaginative space.