About

Artist Statement: My work is born out of my need and desire to simplify and/or reduce each moment to its absolute essential, by removing details from life that tend to obscure what is truly being experienced. It is also my desire to bare witness to, and often to lift up in beauty what is so often considered unwanted or held in despair. I work in oil on canvas, linen, birch panel, paper, and sometimes cardboard as I am attracted to surfaces and the way in which the paint soaks in or lays on the surface. I often use many layers of oil paint in the belief that color carries (along with beauty) …