Water's fluid mercurial qualities fascinate. Immersion in water soothes and centers. A drink of water sustains life. As a symbol of life and transformation, water is the dominant theme in my paintings.

My paintings are filled with nuance of color and texture. Subtlety allows careful consideration, emergence of ideas rather than a thrust of the obvious. Surfaces are developed in layers for quiet observation of the interaction of pigment and shadow. They are meditations in change and interaction. Water's capacity to reflect, obscure, change physical states, and to create patterns, makes it an eloquent metaphor to explore patterns of our own experience. Some of these paintings express grief for events that are unfathomable, other paintings provide balance by addressing the beauty in nature and art.

As I begin a new painting, I first create a relief texture, sometimes a symbolic grid of droplets, or patterns suggestive of the flow of water or other fluids ("Sap," Black Rain".) My paintings are worked in many layers, with either transparent glazes or scumbling - exposing the previous strata like a physical history of the painting, while the relief surface interacts with light, casting rhythmic shadows. The six-foot long scroll-like paintings may initially remind one of textile, however, the physicality of the paint is apparent on direct observation. The drape of the un-stretched linen suggests water's vertical flow in cascades and falls.

"Cascade" (Scroll Painting Series)