Artist Statement
Turn it around. Look at it from different angles. View it at various times of day, in all types of light, during changing moods. These methods not only inform my years of work as a psychotherapist--they also strongly define my artistic processes and techniques. I usually can resolve an incomplete or misplaced section or idea by studying and dissecting layers of color, pattern, and texture--all the way down to the original blank canvas upon which they were built. Layers are choices, and how we add or change them leads to the finished product that can adorn both our walls and inner lives.
Elevating an essentially flat medium into a three-dimensional, almost organic structure is how I experience my creation of art--principally by building upon those integral layers of oil and cold wax. Energy. Movement. Mood. Freedom. The dynamic character of my nonrepresentational art encompasses all that and more. I experiment with color, texture, and shapes that exist only in my mind's eye--and giving them a space in the "real" world via art is freeing and empowering.
Miles Davis, a master of another form of abstract art famously said, "In jazz, there are no mistakes." This idea resonates so deeply with me. I've always felt that the freedom of being an expressionist artist makes the concept of mistakes obsolete. Another layer, a different color, a new texture--all run what arguably could be a mistake into a beautiful new note in the composition. And I am always seeking unique ways--through interchanges with other art-makers and various media--to pull vitality through my brush and out into the world as a living, breathing creation that is, by definition, flawless.
Elevating an essentially flat medium into a three-dimensional, almost organic structure is how I experience my creation of art--principally by building upon those integral layers of oil and cold wax. Energy. Movement. Mood. Freedom. The dynamic character of my nonrepresentational art encompasses all that and more. I experiment with color, texture, and shapes that exist only in my mind's eye--and giving them a space in the "real" world via art is freeing and empowering.
Miles Davis, a master of another form of abstract art famously said, "In jazz, there are no mistakes." This idea resonates so deeply with me. I've always felt that the freedom of being an expressionist artist makes the concept of mistakes obsolete. Another layer, a different color, a new texture--all run what arguably could be a mistake into a beautiful new note in the composition. And I am always seeking unique ways--through interchanges with other art-makers and various media--to pull vitality through my brush and out into the world as a living, breathing creation that is, by definition, flawless.
