I paint because I love the process.  I love mixing colors and seeing the interaction between these colors and the painted marks they make unfold and come to life in my paintings. 

My work is about connecting with human emotions and exploring what that looks like on paper and canvas.

Each piece starts with a gesture drawing as I explore the intricate and beautiful human anatomy of the body.  Lines that are quick and simply drawn with charcoal. Erased lines that linger and have a life of their own. From there, when I have a drawing that has captured an emotion that I can really identify with, then, I rework it into many miniature paintings. Working over and over, obsessing over every mark and erased line.  Working until that same gesture of raw feeling and depth of human experience resurfaces as a painting, in a similar but completely different way than the drawn gesture.  

Finally, again, I'll move it along and I'll take it to a bigger canvas. This presents a whole new challenge for me in connecting space and color to work through. It is this process of finding that same fleeting sentiment found in the breath of a moment when it was first captured, that I really enjoy.

I also keep coming back to the landscape and I am particularly drawn to the horizon line.  I have continued to think about and explore the relationships that exist between the physical earth and the sky, the figure and the landscape and more recently, the figure as landscape.