My work stems from the world around me. It is reflective as well as sensory. I draw my influence from natural objects, man-made objects, and the remembered image. To be alive in a world of constant flux and change, one's perception is always evolving. My paintings are reflections of my own personal perception of life. I draw constant reference from the interior and exterior of the natural landscape and other various forms of passage because of the vestigial properties they possess.

I use my painting to convey an experience of contemplative awareness to the viewer. I invite prolonged looking to abstract forms that may have at one time possessed a life, or contained life...a timeless quality. The deconstruction to simple shapes and line is important because it is derivative from the larger scale from which the forms have been extracted. In the paintings, multiple relationships begin to form as line and the geometric shape take on visual tensions as well as various densities.

Painting to me is a release of the remembered image, a way to reflect on what I see, learn, build or deconstruct, and transcend...there is always an opportunity to perceive something in a different way. To look at an object and be moved by the qualities it possesses, or to view something for the first time elicits a contemplative quality to be abstracted and reflected upon.