The creative process is unique to every individual. Artworks are highlights in an artist's unending procession of conditions, of questions and answers, problems and solutions, unique experiences - the flow of a lifetime.

If something seems impossible that means it just takes longer to accomplish.

Artist Statement

   As an artist, I explore the dichotomies between reality and illusion; physicality and spirituality, kinetic and potential energy, natural and constructed environments, recollected past, anticipated future and the gestural present. Compositions emphasize interdependency and interrelatedness of all elements.

   I employ various materials and methods to create iconic visual metaphors such as circles, squares, triangles, pyramids, grids, wheels, windows, boats, bridges and ladders. These images represent the tools  that may assist us in reaching otherwise physically inaccessible places. House-like images may be metaphors for the heart, mind and/or consciousness. Linear bars may be barriers. The ground may be exposed reminding us of the flatness and illusory nature of the picture plane. Circles imply continuity, completeness, opening, the infinite; set in motion, in revolution, they become wheels; revolving, turning, orbiting, encircling. Dimensionally and figuratively the circles become spheres, orbs, planetary, perhaps circles of friends or spheres of influence. Squares are calm stability. Triangles with a level hypotenuse are resilient strength, upended they become unstable elements and may also be directional like arrows. Angles may imply containment like roofs or illustrate capture or concentration like funnels. Horizons may be employed or what I call 'verticons', the vertical divisionary element in a composition.

   The process is an intuitive solution to problems that arise, are created or perceived and resolved, all within the context of the art image itself. The work is therefore abstraction. Both additive and subtractive techniques are involved in the process. Layers are built up using paints and stained papers, which may be wiped, scraped or sanded down. Tools include brushes, scrapers, knives, trowels, rollers, blotters, squirt bottles, sprayers, sanding blocks, tape and other resists. Overall, I strive for an active and engaging composition, bright energetic colors, pleasing color balance, a vibrant sense of place and feelings of immediacy, urgency, conflict, dissolution and above all liberation and joy..

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BS Ed Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, 1978

MA Fine Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1981

Madison Art Center, aka Madison MOCA, Madison, Wisconsin, Technical Services Supervisor (Chief Preparator), 1982 - 1986

California Museum of Science and Industry, aka California Science Museum, los Angeles, California, Exhibit Specialist (Assistant Exhibit Manager), 1986 - 1988

California State Parks, Sierra District, Tahoma, California, Museum Curator 1988 - 1995; Interpretive Specialist 1995 - 2016

Medium - acrylic

Style - drawings, abstract monoprints and paintings 

Works in various private collections and the curated Ray-O-Vac corporate collection.