I am primarily an abstract painter, and recently have been including more collage elements in my work, employing netting and various papers over acrylic paint. My painting process is often intuitive. I enjoy experimenting with paint and materials and surfaces and following where they lead. I am convinced that intuition will take me in promising directions if I do this.
My paintings often begin with watery washes on canvas. I want my paintings to be more suggestive than literal, but hints of subjects emerge from this process. Sometimes I retain most of a preliminary wash, aiming for a meditative effect, or for a sense of floating in space. Or I may paint over parts of the wash to create the suggestion of a landscape or landmass as viewed from above, or a suggestion of layers of soil and sand. I may add bands of color or collage elements to provide structure.
Working this way sometimes feels like a meditation on opposites: flow and structure, possibility and form, or process and planning. I hope my paintings are suggestive of a layered reality, of possibilities, of partially known places. And I want to provide hints of varied angles of vision, of enigmas, or of emerging perceptions.
And I just want to enjoy color and shape and the unpredictability of combining paints and mediums. I enjoy contrasts between soft and blurry passages and shapes that are sharp and clear. Sometimes I add metallic leaf or iridescent paints. I hope you, the viewer, will sense my pleasure in the process and develop your own personal interpretations.
My paintings often begin with watery washes on canvas. I want my paintings to be more suggestive than literal, but hints of subjects emerge from this process. Sometimes I retain most of a preliminary wash, aiming for a meditative effect, or for a sense of floating in space. Or I may paint over parts of the wash to create the suggestion of a landscape or landmass as viewed from above, or a suggestion of layers of soil and sand. I may add bands of color or collage elements to provide structure.
Working this way sometimes feels like a meditation on opposites: flow and structure, possibility and form, or process and planning. I hope my paintings are suggestive of a layered reality, of possibilities, of partially known places. And I want to provide hints of varied angles of vision, of enigmas, or of emerging perceptions.
And I just want to enjoy color and shape and the unpredictability of combining paints and mediums. I enjoy contrasts between soft and blurry passages and shapes that are sharp and clear. Sometimes I add metallic leaf or iridescent paints. I hope you, the viewer, will sense my pleasure in the process and develop your own personal interpretations.