I am a gestural painter who works between representation and abstraction.  I re-visit an image in different media, sizes, and formats, as I discover ways to visually articulate equivalents to motion, sound, smell, and touch.  I begin my artistic process by creating small color studies from life, an information gathering stage in which I record shapes and colored light. In my studio, I work from memory captured in my studies, developing large scale compositions. 

Creating collages from paintings, and conversely, creating paintings from collages has become instrumental in my creative process. Incorporating my previous paintings, clothing, and other objects into a composition serves to add a concept of compressed time.  I re-contextualize them into settings that shift their meaning and function.   In a chance occurrence in placement, I discover the boundaries and ambiguities of space, and a dynamism occurs.  As the eye jumps to connect shapes into objects, I discover multiple points of view that become a metaphor for high key activity of myself in motion in a world in motion.