About Me

My desire as an artist is to make apparent those qualities in the world that I see and that interest me. Our everyday physical world is filled with visual situations that I find more dynamic than anything I have ever created in my role as an artist. While this has at times been a dilemma for me, it has also provided an unlimited supply of inspiration.

My work is and always has been about paring things down and removing excess.

I have remained within the format of painting, but have begun to realize more clearly that the real medium I am working with is light.

My paintings interact with surrounding light and respond to subtle environmental shifts as well as changes in the viewers physical orientation to the work. They serve as tools, pointing out aspects of light and aspects of the way we see.

I make paintings because I like to look at them. I like how I feel when I look at them. My attempt as an artist is to highlight qualities that are felt rather than understood intellectually. Art is about perception and experience. It is ones awareness and experience that constitute the actual “art act.” What one feels, in the presence of what we call art, is at the center of the entire process. This involves a letting go of intellectual thought and an opening up to a pure state of feeling and perception.

I have always been fascinated by dimensions, and the spaces between what we call 1D, 2D, and 3D. These dimensions are not fixed states of being but rather points on a continuum of physicalness. For example, a 2D image can look 3D in the minds eye, and since perception is a creation of the mind, the experience is somewhere between 2D and 3D.

It is in this space that I like to create, because in the stretching of these dimensions, there is parallel stretching of our perception, which is the foundation of our life experience.