Approach

Painting is not a process; it’s a conversation.

In another life, I sang and played in a jazz band. Listening. Responding in kind. Is there a word for such a thing in modern language—tango, communion, telepathy?

As an anthropology student, I visited a number of ancient indigenous and early man sites. Pictographs and petroglyphs have always fascinated me, especially as a child, but as I visited these sites in my early forties, they took on new meaning.

Art speaks to all of us because art speaks without words—in every language and every moment in time.

Like a jazz ensemble listens and responds, art communicates without force or coercion. It doesn't tell you how or what to feel. It simply provides an opportunity; an imprint; an encounter.

I approach my art with that encounter in mind.