Have you ever seen a red so lush and juicy it makes your mouth water and you can taste the intensity? What about a yellow so bitter it makes your skin tingle?

Color and texture have always impacted me in a physical way. This impact is intensified where colors intersect, overlap and adjoin and texture adds to this experience. Painting is the language I use to translate my physical and emotional exploration. I am interested in interacting with the viewers senses and eliciting visceral reactions.

I am currently working on a series titled, Emotional Landscapes. These are non representational landscapes and most recently the work has begun to come from a place where abstracted atmospheric conditions have become a common analogy. Being in nature and interacting with the elements is a vital aspect of my life.

My process begins with building the cradled panels I paint on. My background in fine craft - ceramics, metalsmithing, and woodworking, continues to influence me. The materiality of building objects is satisfied in this step. I use a variety of tools to apply paint and often paint with my hands. This tactile exploration appeals to my senses and is often cathartic.

I have a fascination with the residue of my painting practice. I collect jars of palette scrapings and boxes of used paint stained gloves. This is the record of my time in the studio and I hoard the remains like treasure. It is the messy evidence of what really happens in the studio.