My work is about relationships. How abstract forms, color, and line, occupy space together within a painting. The work is also a metaphor for human relationships and the resilience of the human spirit. A place where joy can be found in spite of the world.
I build compositions by utilizing color and simple abstract forms that travel across the picture plane creating movement and rhythms. These interactions function in the service of “relationship building” among the forms. The painting progresses through a “call and response” where changes are integral and necessary to the process of arriving at something whole; progress leads to something lost or sacrificed, but always something gained in return. The work highlights the potential and possibilities that are inherent in the creative process and this process, in turn, reminds me that to practice art is to practice living.
My intention is to make art that is open and accessible. I’m hoping viewers will enter the work and have an experience, and when they return to the work they will see something new and have a different experience. I think of art as a living and breathing thing. Like most artists, my art practice keeps me grounded. When people respond to my work, it constitutes a shared experience —the process has gone full circle.