Painting, for me, is a process derived from life. It emerges through call-and-response. I work to hear the call clearly, so I might acknowledge it in the manner it demands.

My response is eminently situated. From where I stand, a line becomes a boundary or hints at a path. A shape petitions for reinforcement. A plane is broken, a region flattened in the name of progress, making way for the new forms that congregate where it once lay.

I use acrylic paint, graphite, oil sticks, enamel, wax crayon, and collage to build layers in composition. I mix mediums to activate a surface. I work on varied substrates: canvas, linen, digital print. By incorporating unfinish into these works, I construct a space of perpetual engagement. I mean for the experience of looking to be continually gratifying for my audience and myself. Every encounter adds meaning.

By embracing bold, heavily applied color, I establish anchor relationships that I hope will enable viewers to venture farther out in their impressions of hues that might otherwise be passed over as nostalgic or comfortable. I seek to call into question assumptions about color, not in the proscribed manner of a theorist but as a spontaneous product of the energetic relationships that spring from my process.