ARTIST STATEMENT

The body of my work illustrates transformation in the life of an artist.

The most interesting aspect of being a visual artist is to be able to see your work evolve by degrees as you increasingly develop through deeper study, more experience and better skills. Then the creative imagination can finally be released to follow its own path.

I have gone from telling myself "I don't want to paint like this', to ' That's how I want to paint' to where I am now and can freely say, 'This is how and what I paint at this particular time and it's OK to do it. "

I have uncoiled from a totally realistic art training. My subject matter was the traditional objects, people and nature. I moved on to painting more subjectively. My art began to express ideas through forms of expressionism, impressionism and lyrical abstraction.

Now I let colors, shapes, texture, form and space create their own world. It is awesome to watch the creative process develop to where it is not OF something or ABOUT something but where the painting itself IS something.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring?