I paint to explore abstract visual concepts and to solve visual problems.
My process is influenced by abstract expressionism, colorfield painting, and Japanese sensibilities and calligraphy. I spent over 25 years teaching color, graphic design, typography and other subjects in university programs, and my preoccupation with color, form and composition proceeds partly from this teaching.

I pour, spill, drop, squirt, pool, channel and draw with paint; working with foot, hand, finger, stylus, whatever tool generates the appropriate response to achieve the effects and relationships I am seeking. I work and rework surfaces, cover, recover, reveal, act, react. My process, spontaneous and controlled, involves aggressive action, broad gestures, slow movements, and waiting. Line, form, color, edge, motion, space, layer, splash, and stain, are among the verbs in my visual language.

I mean to realize a depth of pictorial space, over time, in form and color, on a surface. The paintings are narratives, dialogues, journeys, interior landscapes, meditations. Each painting has a history and archaeology that may decipher its order, disorder, and the path that generated it. My process and my visual interests involve rest and tension, drama and quiet, dynamism and reserve, movement and stasis, depth and surface, and bringing them together.

November 2000