Artist statement: My art draws on a perception of nature, abstracted and internalized. When I look at the natural world, I am not looking at objects such as trees and rocks. I see space and form fractured by movement and light. Foreground, middle-ground and background compress into a kaleidoscope of energy. Using the pictorial language of gestural abstraction, I work in the space between what I observe or remember and what I imagine. Color is the carrier of energy. Slashes, splashes, lines and marks hint at the transition and transformation of natural processes.