My paintings investigate topics and ideas that spring from my heart. Social justice and the environment are at the top of this list.

However, it is the colors, forms, and overall mark-making that call to me the most. As an intuitive painter, I respond to the paint itself more than rigidly adhering to my preconceived plan. Each of my paintings is an exploration. I am especially interested in distilling the subjective world into color, form, and light and seeing how the brain responds, and how the visual language of my art “reads.”

Recently, much of my work has been formed by a layering of color and pattern. I have found a particular joy in the addition of ethereal linework floating on a mysterious surface of color. These delicate elements are echoes of my first love—drawing in graphite.

There is an ebb and flow in my painting process. I enter the “zone” by rapidly applying subtle color variations of paint, often using analogous color palettes. I pour translucent washes, smear thicker layers of viscose paint, scrape lines into the surface, and dab and poke at the surface with rags and sometimes bare fingers. When I finally pause, I realize my hands are covered with colors, my palette is a mess, rags and paper towels litter the surfaces where opened tubes and jars of paint are scattered in chaos. This is when I need to sit with the work. To be with it, live with it, to listen to what it is saying.