Biography
For the last year I have been experimenting with pigmented varnishes to produce richly colored abstract paintings. Inspiration often comes from personal memories of significant places and people expressed in reduced compositions with colored forms stretching gradually into the picture space in a manner suggestive of slowly unfolding timescales and expansive terrains. As the series has developed the initial grid compositions of earlier experiments have given way to simple diptychs and open color fields of heavily layered depth. I take great pleasure in the process of making these works as they inspire me to put aside pencils and brushes and play with other tools – large squeegees, scrapers, paddles, mops, and trowels – to produce unexpected effects and textures. This process enables a more intense personal dialogue with my materials and the expressive potential of color that I hope to communicate in each piece. A painting is complete when I feel that it has achieved a certain balance of tensions in form, color, and alternating surface qualities that convey a sense of drama and transition.
