Artist Statement

For much of my life I have been interested in the question: How do we create meaning from experience?

My paintings explore that question through memory. I am fascinated by the way memories emerge, recede, transform, and continue to shape who we become. I seek to evoke the emotional traces that experience leaves behind.

Working between representation and abstraction, I begin with intuitive marks that create a visual field of possibility. Through successive layers of paint, collage, charcoal, mixed media and scribed lines, fragments of remembered images gradually emerge. Some remain recognizable; others dissolve into gesture, texture, and atmosphere. The process is less an act of recording than one of discovery.

Over the years, my work as an artist, author, teacher, and student of human development has deepened my appreciation for the creative process itself. I have come to see creativity not merely as artistic expression, but as a fundamental human capacity for shaping meaning, identity, and personal agency.

My paintings invite viewers into that space between memory and imagination, where the past is continually reinterpreted and where new understanding can emerge. Each work is an exploration of what remains, what changes, and what continues to live within us.