The painters I studied most – Giotto, Cezanne, and Matisse taught me structure and I learned along the way that minute or large changes could make all the difference in finding what I’m looking for – i.e. if I start the painting with a vision, it changes the moment the application of paint commences.

Painting for me is not about illustrating an idea, but rather finding the essence through experimentation even if it means losing a painting altogether, better that than leaving something partially realized.

I’m willing to go back – scraping, washing down, to re-see it. It’s this process that led me to understand that my work is about finding the light.

In effect my subject is color making space based on nature. That space is created by the rhythm of colors instead of constructing a series of outward mounting planes.

Growing up in Southwest Florida infused my blood with the love of this lush nature and I have taken that with me wherever I have gone.

My art is based on the contact between my sensibility and nature. For me, there is no didactic system.

I know what I’m looking for when I start a painting, but as the process goes along I lose control of it – there is no solid footing. I want to take the viewer with me on this journey.

At the end of a painting or when I feel there’s nothing more to change it’s as though all the emotion that was in me is now in the painting – I’ve been relieved of it.