My practice is centered on creative exploration in several disciplines with the greatest emphasis on painting. My work is sometimes representational, sometimes abstract and I draw, paint, sculpt and assemble works depending on the project. I’m now developing my practice without financial distractions but in a later stage of life. This allows me to redirect and repurpose my time to develop my craft. I value my practice as an opportunity to enter new territory as I seek to identify patterns and themes that will serve as a guide to adaption, evolution and reinvention. I have always had a cycle of building, deconstructing and rebuilding in my practice. The process is familiar although ambiguous at this time. The themes I’ve been exploring continue to evolve as I follow the clues that emerge through creative action.

A common theme in my work is a dialogue with my surroundings or environment, which I would describe as the human presence embedded in the flow of the natural world. In the long view of time I occupy a space for a moment and everything that surrounds me is not fixed but always changing. I’m on a point on a line. My process is to internalize and respond to my experience through my practice. I aim to provide a viewpoint from my emotional or spiritual state that I can’t express another way. It is the primitive reflex to respond to what is known or unknown in a creative act.

My creative method is a combination of material process, emotional state, completely random actions and experience. My practice is an attempt to strip away as much preconceived intention as possible allowing for a desired but unexpected or even unknowable outcome. With this mindset my work becomes fluid and I don’t feel a need  to categorize or to fit into a genre or follow too many rules. The freedom to work without strict definitions is an important part of my process at this time.