FEATURED ARTIST

I approach my work wholly by informed intuition and without a premeditated composition. As I paint, paths present themselves and I move forward…layering, scraping, and scratching the surface as it builds upon itself. When first viewing these finished works, different areas of color or texture have an immediate impact, like a foreground, while the rest reveals itself each time you take a fresh look. In truth, several paintings materialize on the surface and are eventually covered by the ones you see before you. The evidence of another work is readily apparent (a previous generation, if you will) so that a visual history is formed. Similar markings are found in each of the layers as the patterns of the works’ history are repeated and subsequently covered. As a result, you could say these works are based on memory, the quality of memory…its texture, patterns, movement, and color.

Memory is not limited to our thoughts, but pulses through us as our cells regenerate. It is visceral and fleeting, and continues to absorb itself and morph into yet another layer of flesh or thought. The scratches on the surface of the paintings may serve as a reminder that we are not our faces, names, organizations, possessions, religions, or schools of thought. We share a particularly primitive history and are all connected as descendants of the energy and memory of creation.