Artist’s  Statement:                  

            The focus of my work is on the internal structure of my thoughts and feelings, using surfaces and lines, and color I express associations with movement and emotions.

            I ordinarily paint to the sound of music playing. As a painter I see and hear a bridge between the beauty of music and that of abstract art.  When I paint I almost always feel a beat, a rhythm in what I am painting. Often a melody as well.  As I paint I feel lifted, and lyrical.  I think the variety of form, color, and content in my work reflects that I hear and feel what I paint.

           I am developing a body of melodic abstractions.  Therefore, I have titled some of my abstracts musically.  Primarily, I leave the interpretation of this art, and the journey into it, to the viewer, believing that each person views art in his or her own way; however, the musical titles may be a nudge onto the bridge. I believe abstract art lends itself so magnificently to every expression of life, and to an appreciation by the viewer, who comes to it with all of the accumulation of her or his own life experiences.  In the melody of modern abstract art, s/he may see, and hear, emotional content - pathos, joy, fury, forgiveness, betrayal, love.  My vision is to create the peace that comes from finding that relationship with abstract painting which is borne of recognition, catharsis and, finally, solace.

            Philosophy of Art:             

             Modern abstract art is … is color, form and movement.

            I believe that the function of the artist is to be present, and all-embracing.  Art can, and should, be done for all, and by all.  For me, art for art’s sake should not be a concept. The division between art and life out of which such a concept comes should not exist. Art itself should be taken to be perishable, to be made again each time it disappears or is destroyed. What should be clung to is the spirit which makes art possible. That spirit requires the artist to leap from the intellectual and technical aspects of art, into the unconscious and subconscious space which houses our creativity.

            I believe that art should concern itself with reaching beyond and beneath nature, to contact, and that art itself should become a part of la force vitale. The modern artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force that the thing contains.

            To me art is not what I think I feel, see and hear but, rather what I feel I see and hear. I don’t paint what I know, I paint what I feel. Abstract art isn’t” abstract" as we narrowly define the word - it is color, form and movement.  When I paint, I leave my ideas behind, and create from my sensibilities. In its purest and most creative form, my art doesn’t come from my mind; it comes from the place in me that I dream. My total attention needs to be on the sensual flow of experience from the unconscious. I have to let go of that comforting, distant, thought-full voice, and descend into deep dream space of mine, a space that everybody has.  This result is a kind of super concentration. To me, being an artist, means to never divert my eyes, never flinch, or turn from that place.