Color is very intuitive for me and is mainly what draws me to making oil paintings.

In the medium of oil, I find the vibrancy and versatility to portray colors as I love to see them.

My paintings are a process of exploration of color. However, I rely on design elements, shapes, composition, contrast, texture to give depth, character, and energy to the colors.

I rarely begin a painting with much more than a vague idea of what I where I want to end up. From beginning to end, the painting evolves as a non-verbal dialogue improvised between me and the canvas. What I see on the canvas suggests what changes I make next. I spontaneously choose colors, alternating between transparent glazes and heavier layers of paint. I experiment with different hues and saturations and how they blend with one another to create transparency and solidness. Though I work abstractly, I like to create illusions of near and far through shadow and light. Each painting is a progression of many layers of experimentation.

I work on a painting until I don’t know what to do next. If I really love it as it is, I call it finished. Otherwise, I’ll come back to it later to continue or rework. However, I would not really consider a piece complete if it were never shared with an audience. To me, the painting comes truly alive only when a connection is established with a viewer through the shapes, colors, and texture of the painting.

The titles of the paintings are intended to hint at an element of what the work suggests to me when it is finished but should not be taken as a clue to “meaning.” There are no intentional messages or statements in the paintings.