Field Within, is an ongoing body of work exploring how marks, shapes & passages unfurl, finding their way to some kind of unified release in the space of the painting. The undulating movement of the hand and paint create openings to relationships on the surface of the painting as well as within the inner landscape- the psyche, spiritual, emotional - these are always in concert with the infinite synchronicities in nature and its elements.

My work ranges from rich, deeply layered stretched paintings to dry, flat paintings that tend to have a more fervently drawn nature on loose canvas, relinquishing itself from the constraints of formality.

When I let go of questions like “what is this” or “why is this,” and instead just accept that the painting “just is,” I feel that what is within me is co-creating with energy outside, in nature. Otherwise the painting doesn’t work.

As soon as the painting begins, it becomes a living thing in the world- like trees brought to life from within. The painting never really ends even when it is “finished” because the paint, the human touch, and the history of its making breathes and has a pulse of its own. My painting is always in flux.

I often think about the compositions of my paintings as mirroring human collective energy. A strong, positive collective engagement has never been more crucial than at this dangerous time in our culture. The unfurling movement and freedom from tension in a painting can be kind of a beacon or symbol of hope. Art is always hopeful.