I’m a self-taught Knoxville, Tennessee-based acrylic painter interested in variations on color fields, broadly speaking, and, more specifically, on the apposition of complexity and simplicity. Elegantly rendered complexity is often profoundly simply, but, as Albert the physicist observed, it's important to make certain it's “Not too simple.”

 I work primarily with acrylic on paper because I like the balance of control and stochastically predictive, mildly-guided-but-moderately-random chance. There’s also some counterbalance emerging in my efforts; between color (I’m drawn to bright colors) and black-and-white (minimalist and not) productions. I’m not sure what that’s about yet. But I like it. 

Then, too, having devoted 50 years to the Clinical Psychology field, I’ve expended significant time seeking to understand the difference between ‘the Concrete Attitude,’ as one of the old masters called one sort of thinking that seems currently rather rampant, and Abstraction. As René Magritte so eloquently painted juxtaposition in ‘This is not a pipe.” We’re all still working on that particular problem. As am I.