""A Very Serious Garden - Invaded"" Painting

Facets, fragments, random ideas
Float, stop and land without plan
Or reason
Only to create form
And pattern
Recognizable repetitions
To be dealt with
discovered
uncovered
understood.
If we are open
The story of happenstance can tell all.

When I step up to the canvas I make a mark... and then another...and another. I let the marks create their own journey on the surface...weaving, constructing, and interacting until patterns and relationships begin to speak to each other and to me. I play and talk to the canvas with my brush. It speaks back. If I listen carefully, I learn what my paintings are about. I am always amazed at their truth.

As a working professional artist for over forty years, I have moved through and experimented with many different phases. Looking back, I can always see the logical evolution and flow into every new area. My paintings take me to each new place....I just follow. I like to work in a series....trying to develop and push an idea to see how far I can dig and how much I can learn from it.....to ask it more questions. I discipline myself to stay with an idea until, one day, it is all painted out. Although my subject matter and conceptual ideas may appear to change as I move through these different periods, my most basic painting issues always stay the same. My work is first and foremost about the plastic quality of paint itself ...then about color, line, forms and shapes, and relationships. I look for the unexpected and the surprise. My work is always about the "mark."


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