My current work explores the possibility of making visual sense through a process that, though sometimes complex, turns out to be a managed serendipity.


I create large abstracts, worked flat. I start with acrylic paint, beginning with colors in different areas and manipulating the canvas until I find what works. The beginning is almost arbitrary, but what emerges is usually surprising.


I combine paint with a variety of textures - sometimes pouring medium, sometimes varnish, sometimes gels - to create surfaces that I embellish, remove, scrape, splatter or puddle.


Walking around the canvas as I work, I discover what perspective best suits the piece. Whether vertical, horizontal or angled, there is a struggle between disarray and harmony, comfort and discomfort that I strive to resolve in each piece. This process can sometimes be completed through a minute detail or a disparate dash of color.


I hope to keep the viewer simultaneously engaged by the complexities within the work and soothed by the empty spaces between.