As the bareness of winter becomes a past memory, springtime ushers a season of new beginnings. These works were inspired by lengthening hours of daylight,  lavish color, and new growth bursting forth. Each work is an allegory of the new life we feel as times of barrenness lift within our own lives.

This composition of seeing a horizontal line connect edge to edge is so innately powerful, we feel we're standing and looking at the field before us as location. I stand in the same place as you'll be standing. Looking and asking "where is this taking me?" Inspiration for these paintings comes from someplace boundary-less and deep within. 

Within this series, I have experimented with the idea of restraint in different ways. Resisting my usual way of working - the urge to add more complexity - each work instead focuses on an element. Some concentrate on line, others color, still others value or texture. The isolation amplifies the intrinsic beauty of the raw expression. I call this series "Soul Searching" because working in this manner felt vulnerable like exposing a deep part of my soul. Ultimately the restraint became a respite from the noise and congestion of complexity and offered freedom. The epiphany in painting each work is akin to hearing an a cappella solo, the essence of resplendent limitlessness born from limitedness.

This body of work inspired by the  greek term Poilikia  aptly displays variations in surface, color, and complex assemblages. Although closely associated with Byzantine design, its a protean idea. Each piece visualizes beauty by interconnecting disparate textures of traditional metal leafing  with more contemporary synthetic Yupo paper and polymer paints and mediums.