To create a visual/conceptual backdrop for my paintings, I employ strategies derived from post-painterly and gestural abstraction, hard-edge painting, impressionism, and atmospheric perspective. The synthesis of these painting dialects gives each piece both object-presence and a dynamic spatial interior. There is constancy and interdependency in the “dynamic” gray-scale interiors and the often tri-color “static” borders, which, framelike and hard-edged, wrap around the painting.

I seek clarity and resolution in line, color, and form, while challenging viewers’ perceptions of surface and space through simple, precise gestures on wood.

I invent arrangements of colorful forms and bathe them in light. I try to capture a portrait-like snapshot of some ethereal subject, using imagery that appears to be simple, universal, and timeless. Lately, I have been excited about rocks and the ocean. I might contrive a portrait composition within a seascape, sometimes incorporating elements of the human form, and work on a large scale to lend life and monumentality to the image.