Statement

My paintings tend to evolve over long periods of time. The materials themselves often arrive already having some history: discarded house paint and canvases; found panels; badly worn brushes. Each painting requires a new solution–perhaps a new structure, a new pallet, a new approach. Previous marks or build up of paint may direct new actions while intentions may change and be altered mid stream. I often feel as if I am standing just off center where everything is up for grabs. The space for deliberation narrows and demands. In the end, each painting may appear stylistically different and, to me, more alive. I prefer art when it appears to be informed, passionate, and personal. I wish for my own work to be complex but simple, distant yet present, a little confusing, curious, never complacent, offering the viewer a visual memory and a feeling, a place to enter, and new questions to be answered.