I don't just paint figures. They are figures exuding an emotion. What the emotion is, is for the viewer to realize. My abstracts also are derived from an emotion. I try to translate this to the viewer by using color as well as line, shape, and composition intuitively. When I am painting in my studio, I am unaware of time, of how and exactly when a painting is completely done. It is a constant dialogue with the canvas and an ever-flowing stream of varying feelings.