Art is a means of expressing abstract ideas that cannot be conveyed with words.

I often start painting with a concept in my head, but when the idea begins to take form on the board, the situation changes. My emotional reaction to the work affects the idea itself and as the idea changes new feelings arise. This process goes on until an equilibrium is reached.

Art is a means of communication, but unlike language there is no dictionary to tell us what it should mean. Each person receives his/her own unique message when they view a work. It is most rewarding for me when that message also touches the viewers emotions.

 
PAINTINGS

Acrylic gives me the opportunity to work in many layers, without having to wait so long for them to dry. Some pictures have as many as twenty layers.

The group of paintings titled "Misfitting Pieces" reflects upon social outsiders and loneliness; to dare to be different, to go your own way, and think your own thoughts. The choice of composition was derived from a wish to simplify the structure of my earlier pictures and reduce the scale of color which had been more comprehensive.

 
DRAWINGS

For me, graphite is the king of drawing and the queen of sensuality with its velvet blackness, coarse lines and deep surface. I am drawing my "picture words" in the colors between black and white.

The drawings on my "graphite" page are thoughts about our genetic beginnings. Regardless of whether we concern ourselves with humans, plants or animals, the smallest components of any living being are ultimately the same. This inspired me to reduce boundaries between images in order to capture the idea I was trying to express. Nature is an endless source of themes with which one can become deeply engaged.