ARTIST STATEMENT

These paintings are explorations in a synthesis between two worlds I have sought to bring together.  The spontaneous expression oriented approach and the more controlled representational approach.  I have always felt the pull in two directions.  Maybe a pull between my heart and my head. 

I usually start with acrylics, use plant-squirters, brooms, palette knives, etc. to get a “ground” that I feel is free and heart-felt.  Often it is wild and untamed.  I love the moment when you depend on your dance as you move and stop thinking, just work.  Trust your subconscious.  After I am satisfied with the ground, I feel the need to tame it with the objects I place on it.  The objects are, for the most part, invented.  They are purely vehicles to make pleasing arrangements of shape, color, and texture.  I have called them “fantasy still-lifes” and given them nonsensical names that shouldn’t steer the viewer away from the fact that I don’t care to make any statement other than an aesthetic one.