Big Wave II Painting

Big Wave II is one of my first paintings to explore control and fluidity by use of design, color and texture. This painting is framed in a smooth white wood floater frame. As framed, the painting is 21.5x21.5x2 Inches. The painting itself is 20x20 Inches. This painting is finished with several coats of a professional permanent varnish, which has a satin/slight gloss sheen. Despite their names, my art is nonobjective. I am inspired by texture, happenstance and the patina of worn surfaces; natural and manmade. I see grace and nostalgia in their visual history. I think this sensitivity allows me to approach my work with an uninhibited perspective on aesthetics, using color and visual texture as the primary elements in my geometric compositions. Each painting takes me on its own journey in which I intuitively listen and respond, incorporating of a variety of techniques and countless layers of acrylic and mixed media, constantly accumulating and reducing the applied materials until each piece finds its own end.