houses on the hill Painting

Painting and drawing help me understand myself, express myself, and communicate my understanding of the world. I make paintings that reconcile opposites and capture the divine, the poetic, and the joyful. I enjoy mixing my own colors, and I am interested in how the amount of light on a color affects the composition, structure, atmosphere, shape, and other colors in the painting. I enjoy coloring my painting surface with fields of shapes, patterns, and rhythms. I paint as a journal, documenting my experiences in life, so my work has changed over the years. I believe in the communicative capabilities of color and pattern, rhythms, atmosphere, empty space, and the endless plasticity of the medium. Inspired by modernism and Asian aesthetic traditions and informed by travel, photographs, and memory, my work tells a story or conveys a distinctive sense of spiritual pursuits.