My approach to painting changed during the pandemic. After six years of ceramic making, I re-entered the world of painting, awakened by the call from the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, 2020.

  I have gone back to the child, a place where I went many years ago while painting. I believe children are natural creators and if we adults can let go of our calculating and over identified nature, we can bring forth that undiscovered playfulness with the patina of a life lived over it.

  I am stimulated by the texture of paint on the substrate, Claybord. Blind application of paint, gouache, I have found my way - to start with the abstract and then seeking. These pieces seem to be more about emotional components than actually having a purposeful intention. I am looking into the chaos of smudges, wipes and etched areas. It is a method of many an artist’s creative intentions, to reveal the mystery through the unknown to make it known. I do admit, I have a propensity for eyes and if found I will seek out what belongs to them. Faces have always fascinated me and I will excitedly see what is there to render out. I find metaphor in my work after it is created. It has come from within rather than pondered and pre-identified.

  My ceramics practice is still that - a way to make a living and a forever plunge into one of humankind's oldest practices. It is deeply satisfying and a constant challenge to bring forth something from wet to hardened. 

As you look inside my galleries, you will see explorations of more than just painting and ceramics but other creations stimulated by imagination and a need to explore the cousins to my established practices.