When I paint, I throw caution to the wind, letting it out, expressing from the inside, deliberate, yet free... arbitrary, yet intentional. Moving paint around, mixing colors, trying new ideas thrills me and I can not not paint. My work is about the process. The image often comes secondary to the actual art-making. I tend to work a lot in the abstract world of shape and color, line and form, painting intuitively, one brush stroke leading to the next. I find that there is a poetic spirituality in the process. Figures or landscapes may appear, even animals or food. Lines cross the canvas, words pop up out of nowhere. What happens next can be surprising and exciting. There is a definite chaos through which each work evolves. What is left behind may be visible or not, but I always know it is there. Creating, destructing, recreating…. Figuring it out, as in life. I always hope the takeaway is an experience. That the viewer can see and relate to a story or a memory, whatever that experience may be for him or her.