“When I start a painting I am thinking about paint; thickness and thinness, color, brushstrokes, mixtures, and texture. 

The narratives in my paintings come from my everyday life. I’m interested in randomness; narratives that create themselves and develop intuitively as I am working. The results are paintings of scenes  with the usual hierarchies reversed. The insect or flower or tree or bird is in the foreground, and the humans and/or their detritus, such as cars, houses, roads, airplanes, etc. are in the background or half out of the picture.

During the COVID pandemic Zoom became a part of my everyday life. Hence, I began a series of “Zoom Heads”, developed from the drawings I do in my sketchbook while I am in the Zoom meetings. 

But the paint always comes first.”