Artist Statement
I’m a person who lives by questions and awe. Listening to music, holding a conversation, lingering at sunsets and mountain streams, looking up at tall buildings, all are incorporated into my work and support my craving for passionate consciousness. I’m in awe of the refinement of form and color that I find in the art of Sung and later Chinese dynasties, and of the history of the mountains near my home.
In my work I try to make each color, each line and its spacing create both harmony and tension. My exploration as a visual artist over the last fifty years has also been focused on the refinement of color and form. I don’t title my works because I want above all to leave them available to the experience and discovery of others.
During the past five years, my paintings have explored vertical and horizontal relationships in space, the harmony and tension within color, line and form. I’ve employed surfaces and paint textures to explore further the possibilities of the medium, working on large and small scale square surfaces of linen or paper and highly saturated acrylic color.
I see my work as part of that universal process in nature, poetry and art, of change and refinement. In tension, I’m seeking the questions. The process is endless. Its exploration through color, form and line has been the search of my work and my life.”