“The Impressionists taught us to look at nature very carefully; the Americans teach us to look very carefully at the painting.  Paint is as real as nature and the means for a painting can contain its ends.” 

 —Fairfield Porter

Abstract forms feel true to me.  They emerge from a deep internal place that demands a close conversation between head and heart, emotion and instinct.  A dialogue of shapes, marks, and the emotion of color.  Beginning with gesture, I find marks and forms that speak to my imagination, that ask for connection, that seek relationships.  I know very little about where the painting will take me at its beginning, but in a process of improvisation, uncertainty, and revision follow its clues and suggestions to find a resolution. It’s the excitement of not knowing, of searching, that allows the painting to develop itself, to find its voice, and to speak its truth. The painting reveals itself to me in the act of its making.