When I paint, I’m not interested in faces or landscapes, flowers or chairs.
My scenes and scapes are spaces yet unexplored.
It has occurred to me that my canvas works point to Richter and Pollack – if I had to look for influences for these paintings.
Pollack said he preferred to put the canvas on the floor and be active with the paint.
Richter pulled and scraped the paint, blending and stretching to reveal the power of his colors.
Palm Frond Art
The palm frond husks present a great opportunity to create decadent, sexy, campy, wanna-have pieces. I’m loving the experimentation and I’m loving the results. Definitely more to come.
I live in Long Beach, California, which is the home of the Aquarium of the Pacific, whale-watching tours, and other aquatic attractions. Long Beach also serves as the southern anchor to the very dirty Port of Los Angeles. Alamitos Beach — where I live — is quite polluted, and although I see other people in the water, I would never get in it. So, while I am delighted living by the sea, I’m also constantly reminded of the threat to that sea. Some of my current works, like Reef Party and Coral Spawning Event portray the beauty of aquatic life, while others, such as Pacific Refinery, show the threat and damage to that environment.
Although I’ve have dipped my toes in various types of art-making over the years, including previous paint works on canvas, I have no formal art training. Instead, I combine 25+ years experience in graphic design and production as well as buyer/seller in second-market art, and a desire for mess-making with paint to inform my approach to abstract art in creating works that excite and move me.