Endings The middle stages of a painting are mostly fraught with questions, doubts, and quite often, floundering.  Where is this painting going?  What does it need?  When will the chaos resolve itself?  Will the chaos resolve itself?  Most...

My work is highly rooted in and influenced by the Abstract Expressionist movement and the Color Field painters of the 60's and 70's. But I do not limit myself to just those two points in time.  I have studied and explored nearly every art movement there ever was....

Whenever I start a new painting, I begin with anticipation and hope. I suspect that is true for anyone who creates. Yet as the work progresses, things get a bit more difficult. Hope and anticipation give way to frustration and chaos…the messy middle!  When I...

When I step into the studio each day, I engage in a multi-faceted conversation.  Before I arrive, there is already a crowd gathered; great artists of the past and a few in the present, upon whose shoulders I stand.  They are my influencers, for I believe...