I tip-toed into art with watercolors, but found that I liked the textures and bold colors that I could achieve with acrylics and mixed media abstract painting. Being partially color blind, my early realistic work looked realistic only to me. With abstract work, I paint the colors and forms that appeal to me and hope that the viewer also finds them interesting.

The inspiration for my work comes from my experiences, memories and ideas. When a thought enters my brain that I want to capture, I do a fast pen or pencil sketch that attempts to capture the essence of the thought. Some of these are trash and never make it past the sketchbook. Still others look like possibilities for a painting and I develop them further. If they continue to have some eye appeal and capture my interest, they will become a fully rendered piece.

A funny thing happens during this process and is the reason I love abstract painting. With photo realistic work, what you see is what you paint. With abstract painting, my work evolves as I am painting and moves in whatever direction my mind takes it. For this reason most of my work bears a resemblance to, but is never exactly like, the original sketch that inspired it. In the future I hope to be more free and loose with my style, and to experiment with a wider variety of materials, processes and media. There is just no telling what might be over the next hill or around the next corner, but, it is sure to be interesting."