Artist Statement

Art is essential for me to express what I can only share through a visual language. As long as I can remember, I’ve interacted with world primarily visually, noticing color, pattern, and contrasts in light and dark. Painting allows me to share my experience with others and at the same time process my emotions and responses to the world. Drawing in my sketchbook and creating monotypes also play a role in my artistic practice, supporting and enriching my primary focus on painting.

Intrigued by color and movement, my paintings often stem from a memory of colors, an emotion, or mark-making.  To start, I make a few pencil marks to break up the space, mix several colors, then begin applying paint with palette knives. As the piece progresses, observing how colors and shapes relate and echo each other, I continue to shape the composition by adding and removing paint.

Each artwork feels like creating choreography or a musical score as I interact with the space. Working intuitively, references to landscape may emerge or the work may remain abstract. I find that people bring their own experiences to viewing art, especially abstract work.  To me, my work feels like inner landscapes or atmospheres. It evokes a sense of place yet allows the viewer to decide where that place might be.