My paintings are an amalgam of abstraction, actual and imagined places, and recollections. I like to paint on a larger scale to feel I am in the painting. The limited space of a smaller canvas interests me in that I confront the challenge of wanting to make the work feel big. I do a lot of drawing, using various mediums on paper, often in tandem with works on canvas. The visual conversation happening between paintings and drawings turns off the inner voice that gets in the way of painting.

I am at home by the water and am taken in by vast expanses, but I also enjoy an urban setting and a city skyline. I like to combine the feelings, structures, light, and space inspired by nature with those of man-made environments for a meeting of both worlds.
In my work I want to capture what is compelling about a location or setting while asking what’s this place about? How do I convey, for example, the energy in the moment of a breaking wave? How do I interpret the embrace of darkness? There is often a sense of longing in my paintings. I’m in the moment, but drift off wanting to be somewhere else. Our minds constantly travel and paintings can transport us to familiar and unfamiliar places. For me, the color blue elicits and reflects emotions. It represents sky and water -- constants in changing landscapes and life cycles – and blue conjures up wanderlust.

The process of painting is a continuous search for the truth. When I paint, I want to travel to new places in the ultramarines and foggy grays, in bright light reflections, and in shadows. I want the work to be alive and I invite the viewer to enter the paintings.