A body of work celebrating endings flowing into new beginnings. new beginnings,  these works  are Inspired by lengthening hours of daylight,  lavish color, and new growth bursting forth. Characterized by their dynamic essence with expansive paint , I build texture, layer, and push color to create an effect both generous and unexpected.  Each work is a visual allegory of the new life we feel as times of barrenness lift within our own lives. And an invitation for you to meditate in the expressive quality of the rich surface.

This composition of seeing a horizontal line connect edge to edge is so innately powerful, we feel we're standing and looking at the field before us as location. I stand in the same place as you'll be standing. Looking and asking "where is this taking me?" Inspiration for these paintings comes from someplace boundary-less and deep within. 

Shimmers of gold move through paintings where contemporary polymer paint and synthetic paper meet traditional composition metal leaf. Fragments of color, gestural movement and organic forms animate works ranging from openness to abundance.

At one end, a limited palette of paint is allowed to pool, stain and marble across the non-absorbent synthetic paper. It is then cut into fragments and brought into new relationships; shapes, lines and intervals interact with luminous gold. Open space becomes an active part of the composition.

At the other end, color, collaged fragments, bloom-like clusters and passages of gold intermingle, making you question where one ends and another begins. I chose copper-zinc composition leaf for its resilience under manipulation; paint, paper and gold are layered, scraped, sanded and tended until energy swirls into lavish abundance.

Across both, beauty is found in relationship—each part remaining distinct while contributing to the fullness of the whole.

As the work took shape, I encountered the Greek term poikilia, meaning “fascinating variety.” In The Republic, Plato warned against its sensuous pleasures; centuries later, that sensory power was embraced in Byzantine art and sacred expression. In poikilia, I found a name for what I was discovering in making the paintings.

Allowing explores the space between intention and surrender as I invite the materiality of paint and surface to interact. The palette is limited, often to a single color, and surfaces range from smooth, non-absorbent grounds to highly absorbent, unprimed canvas. 

Breath, gravity, and air guide the fluid paint as it flows - gathering, pooling, staining - across each surface in unpredictable ways. The process is intuitive and meditative, requiring sustained attention while the paint moves as it may and the surface receives as it will. I welcome the unexpected and the unimagined as they come alive within the work.

Painting becomes an act of allowing—where intention meets surrender and the work unfolds through an openness to what paint and surface become together.