My recent body of work has evolved from: my life experiences; direct observation of nature; memories of events; my responses to the things I watch, taste, read or hear. For me, the acts of drawing and painting are the most compelling ways of understanding the world I experience.
The essential nature of painting is a constant, paradoxical dialogue between a flat surface and an illusion of pictorial space. The conscious awareness of plasticity with the impulsive responses to the events on the painting surface are at play when I work. Thus, my painting processes are chaotic, intense struggles to find balance between intuitive, visual responses and intellectual, formal decisions.
The sensory pleasure of mixing oil paints, and the physicality of painting are at the core of my creative process. At play in my work are the relational considerations of visual languages, hundreds and thousands of changes of marks, shapes, forms, spaces and colors.
I work obsessively until the work becomes its own autonomous being, its own real thing.