Moving to Taos over 20 years ago gave me the freedom and opportunity to unleash imagery stored away in my mind since childhood. Because of my long career as a commercial photographer, I naturally turned first to photography, experimenting with Polaroid image transfers. They soon became wallpaper for the three-dimensional boxes I constructed to house my visual ideas. Moving through figurative sculpture, digital manipulation and printmaking I finally arrived at painting. I still employ mixed media in my two-dimensional paintings to create a textural surface.
The influences in my work are not always obvious, even to me. The narrative or base layer of a painting begins long before paint touches canvas, starting with a concept that is synthesized and distilled into the bones of two-dimensional form. Composed of color layers that alternate warm and cool within a minimal structure, my work is inspired by the complex forms and textures of the natural world. What begins as an intangible emotional response becomes, through the intuitive process of painting, a visible metaphor.
