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I regard myself as a “painter ‘s painter”. I occupy myself with the process of making a painting: a process that suggests where and how the painting should flow. I concern myself with visual codings, planes, depth and dimension of forms. I use marks that provide cues and clues to what I am suggesting. I map out an image, bringing into being a coherent schema, sometimes a recognizable image, sometimes a mood or a feeling.
My painting reflects my preoccupation with visual dynamics of painting in a world where conceptual art is ubiquitous.
The primal activity of painting allows me to express the physical engagement with visual creativity. It permits me to actualize the potential form and content by manipulating the paint, as has been practiced in the long tradition of Fine Art painting. Painting represent the layering of thought: sensations and feelings are realized only once the mark is made. The emerging amorphous unconscious, in the depths of the mind, becomes conscious, but not always clear and defined or even realized as an image until I translate the feeling and experience into paint, at which point the image becomes more tangible.
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