— and viewing art triggers our own inner creativity, together with inspiration and imagination.

Painting for me is as much, if not more, about exploiting what couldn’t have been previously imagined or foreseen, as it is about the ability to produce an intended effect.

As an artist I explore different avenues of my concept of “visual poetry” – where disparate brushstrokes and other painterly marks form and alter the collective whole in an intuitive, improvisational process. Color, line, texture, and form become abbreviated language, and the subject matter is developed as these elements collide, blend, and evolve – often in unexpected ways. The painting, then, comes into existence because of and through a struggle for resolution.

My hope is that my paintings will hang not just as pleasing decoration, but as visual participants of a living, breathing environment – in conversation with the viewer, shapeshifting according to one’s mood or musings on a given day. In-situation photos can be seen on my Instagram.

I have a BA in sculpture and painting from UC Berkeley and an MFA in sculpture, cum Laude, from the University of Georgia. My work is also included in the permanent collection in the Bechtler Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC.