I love a good adventure and pursue constant exploration and discovery, always stretching for something new. My paintings reveal place-moments in time from the serenity of a landscape … to the horror of a nightmare.
I start with automatic painting using my fingers. Then I add and subtract layers, intuitively applying paint and glazes, veiling or negative shape painting, scratching away, perhaps adding pencil or oil pastel. Media include acrylic to encaustic to alcohol inks on substrates from synthetic paper, to canvas to plywood.
Alone in the studio, I listen to each painting. My fingers push and pull at the very threads of story and timeless existence...until imagery, color and texture develop into a narrative. Coming from a long line of herbalists and storytellers, many primordial (and sometimes surreal) connections flow naturally to me.
I am just a conduit.