"Don't Walk" (2022)

Oil on Panel
24 x 30 inches

I love exploring different ways to manipulate oil paint. I am completely enamored with all of its qualities and it is always my goal to express that to the viewer. I enjoy figuring out the simplest way to communicate an idea or express a feeling or mood.

Memory, perception and the passage of time are concepts that I feel compelled to explore, as well as the abstract nature of reality.  Even my most representational paintings have to function in the abstract for me to feel that the painting really works.

I am also attracted to visual chaos; I strive to organize and control it. My mind seeks out the patterns and I find comfort in creating some kind of order on the canvas. With the use of intuitive mark-making, my goal is always to simplify. Patterns of form and movement, of light and shadow, are the engines behind my work. This is what drives my creative process, but painting itself is always the point.