These paintings are about making art.  Still Life from visual perception is combined with pictorial “quotations” from Velasquez, Masaccio, Manet, Titian and others.  I intend my painting to be both realistic and abstract; on that elusive edge between there and not there. I want realism and abstraction to take turns.  I want a painting sometimes very evocative of time and place, sometimes overwhelming in abstract structure. I want a big interior space that draws the viewer in with logic of its own.  I try to create excitement while ordering chaos.
These paintings are a personal statement about the creative processes.  They move both in and out of space and back and forth in time. Painting from observation, while considering the works of others, fuels the engine of expression and results in a synthesis of ideas that are both reflective and current. By both imposing and finding, the paintings encourage the viewer to think and reflect. The aggressive will to compose and the passive pleasure of seeking combine to make comments on thinking, seeing, creating and painting.