Artist Statement
Painting is a continuum of creative expression and by its own evolution has established a vocabulary that reflects the context of human experience.
The immediacy, spontaneity and reality of human imagination expressed with paint is compelling. Imagination creates the vocabulary of freedom.
On some level we are aware that reality is much larger than the experience of day-to-day consciousness. The physicality and power of color, rhythm and form can stimulate the consciousness to the wonder of what we cannot see or experience in any other way.
The opinion that the painting must represent the familiar in physical form is limiting, because it denies access to all that cannot be seen. Painting can have a subject without an object, be erotic without being explicit. To disassociate from a reliance on pictorial tradition, including the figurative, is to allow our imagination and curiosity to wander outside of representationalism's boundaries. Non-objective painting provides space to wire the experience between image and viewer.
Painting is the synthesis of paint and painter, and the power of both. When a painter makes a mark and places another next to it, that decision is part of
a process that reveals something about the painter and the painter's life.
When presented with context, naked in its color, rhythm and form and without the pretense and propaganda inherent in narrative painting, imagination determines what is seen. At this point the mind you’re viewing is not the painter’s but your own.