These paintings are playgrounds for your eyes.  They are a personal reflection on how colors, shapes and patterns might be arranged.  One element of my playgrounds I refer to as “visual gasps, snaps and poses.”  These are visual images that catch my eye, either bits of physical reality or bits of what I see when I close my eyes.  My paintings are collages of these bits combined with, of course, “physical gasps, snaps and poses.”  These are unplanned physical impulses that work through the body and hand to spew out erratically happy shapes.  I enjoy the weaving together of these planned and unplanned images and impulses.  A third thing I’d like to mention is an aesthetic commonality that manifests in my work.  There is no special significance to my color palette and texture other than that it feels natural and comfortable to me.

Much time have I spent thinking about (1) why abstract images can be so powerful, and also (2) when/why you can call an abstract work complete.  My answers to these two questions are central to my state of mind when I paint.