My work is improvisational, layered and complex. It is also naturally jubilant and tender. I very much believe in the artist as alchemist who can transform the brokenness of our world into something more precious than gold.

In my work secrets are revealed slowly over time. The raw and rough of chance improvisational encounters, upon close observation, become delicate, soothing and healing.

My paintings have no center of focus - they push the eye from one passage to another on a journey of spontaneity. They draw the viewer into an exploration of the raw physical properties of paint, ink and materials that deform to present their essence, to offer themselves up.

What I create are arenas in which colors and materials display their properties freely in play and combine in unplanned and joyous ways. My intention is not so much the creation of art but more a search for spontaneous life springing out of improvisations in pure color. This is a fundamentally exuberant enterprise and I see it as direct painting, direct expression and direct communication.