Botanical
My paintings are composed of grounds that symbolize the landscape. The shapes that intermingle and populate these grounds are symbolic of botanical parts, and are playful compositions about springtime emerging. There is a turning, a spinning, an unfoldment in each painting that interprets blossoming as in a flower at some stage. I’ve returned to this subject time and time again as a universal symbol of hope and renewal.
The process of adding and subtracting paint, wax, graphite and oil pastel over many layers is the central focus of my artwork. I use palette knife, brush, scraper, graphite, to apply these mediums with an intuitive approach. Overlapping passes build up color density and surface texture. The color and texture begins to vary across the whole canvas. The variation is subtle, and begs for looking to find where lines stop, where they begin again, where texture builds, where shape ends and ground begins, where color intensifies and dulls. The looking process for the viewer invites them to become part of the creative process that I experience in making my artwork.