Statement: I make art to celebrate the splendor I see around me and inspire others to delight in the richness that surrounds us all. I’ll use any media I can put on paper. I like the feel of the materials and the immediacy and intimacy of working with my hands. I often work in series to see how images inform others.

Some work is intuitive. Initial marks evoke a reaction, inviting a response, eventually moving the work to resolution as a story emerges. Other work is based in observation, inspired by what I see or sense. Some is both. Everything is abstracted. The play of pattern takes precedence over depiction.

Recently I’ve been repurposing early pieces; neglected prints become the base for collage and unresolved drawings resurrect as mono-prints. As I play with the lines and shapes of familiar work I discover different characters and stories emerge from their hiding places among the patterns of the old to evolve into something brand new.