Artist’s Statement                                                                         

I paint to explore the relationships of people, figures, shapes, color and emotion.

I enjoy working with many mediums. I love painting, drawing and printmaking.

I use oil paint in both tube and stick form and I often combine acrylic paint with wax pastels,

charcoal and chalk. I combine different drawing and painting techniques

and try to experiment with every new piece.

I work from my imagination, from models and from photographs that I take.

Sometimes I start with a structured composition and experiment within that framework.

Other times I start painting without any idea where the process might lead. As the painting

develops, as the shapes shift, as problems uncover and I try to solve them I often keep

remnants of the changes on the surface as a record of the process.