Painting is for me a way to clarify my vision of, and my place in the world.  Each piece reflects the multiple influences and impressions including those from the natural world, from poetry, literature and film, as well as from my own personal spiritual explorations, dreams and prayers.

     The process includes layering several neutral tones of paint onto a prepared surface.  Often, very early in the process certain shapes will emerge and insinuate themselves across the surface.  At other times, I impose my own marks in sequences that arrange themselves.  Marks that happen early  however, are mostly obscured by subsequent layers.  This surface of built-up layers then becomes ripe for carving, incising, and otherwise altering.  With continual adding, subtracting and burnishing, I proceed, much like an archeologist would, until the piece reveals a kind of depth, an obscure suggestion of age and antiquity; of an image or element being lost and then found.