The approach to painting which I enjoy most is to non-objectively manipulate color, line, form, texture, and space, until there is some suggestion of subject matter. The painting has been developed in this direction by incorporating ideas from sources such as memory, imagination, sketches, and photographs. The results produced are often impression rather than a realistic rendering of specific subjects, and therefore project feelings of varying degrees of abstraction or non-objectivity.

This approach was employed in the painting of Blue Rushes. The work was begun with large brush strokes of blues and then, in some areas of yellows, greens, and reds to purples were introduced. As the subject was suggested, the colors were moved around, scraped or washed away. This was followed by the addition of detail, such as the trees, mountains, forms and rushes.