My exploration into creating space, light, and color fields on unprimed canvas began intuitively.  I was surprised how acrylic pigment behaved when freed from the barrier of a primed canvas. It  was much like the watercolor lessons I  taught for years to children.  On raw canvas, color does not simply sit on the surface. Color  soaks, blooms, and diffuses, and becomes infused into the fabric. This absorption is somewhat uncontrollable  with an immediacy and unpredictability I found challenging and beautiful. The surface records every decision including  hesitation, drips and surprises. 

There have been multiple false starts including breaks between the work I created. But I found myself drawn back into the scale and simplicity of this work. I feel certain I have not  exhausted what this medium has to offer. There is more to uncover about the tension between control and surrender.  This process has taught me to embrace the unexpected—which is something valued in art and life. My dialogue continues.

Work exhibited at Sparks Gallery solo, 2025

We are in a strange place in our relationship with nature: surrounded by beauty and resilience, yet aware of the profound instability our presence has introduced. I want to create work where familiar elements appear but within a landscape that feels unfamiliar. The images suggest a recognizable natural world, but one that is altered. Cellular shapes expand, patterns repeat and mutate, and organic structures drift into the strange. 

Monarch butterflies  and bees appear throughout the work as quiet witnesses to endurance and adaptation. Their persistence stands in contrast to the fragility of the systems that support them.  This work inhabits that tension.This  work aims to create a space where the familiar and the strange coexist: a meditation on resilience, uncertainty, and our shifting place within the living world. Materially, the paintings combine mixed media and acrylic on canvas or panel in a richly dense surface with a  floating acrylic layer.