Between Heaven and Earth there is Space… the void of seeming nothingness, and the place where all things begin and end. It is the space of alchemy where I am bound to dance into the form of painting that I practice. I call it Mystical Expressionism.

I've chosen abstract art as my expression because it gives voice to the subliminal terrain of the Spirit and provides a language in which intuitive themes can be constructed from the elemental forces of Fire, Water, Wind and Earth. The elements of force are defined as: “a significant presence of a feeling or abstract quality: the fundamental substance or constituents of the universe”.

FIRE ELEMENT is Spirit; the source of will and drive--the spark of life itself; the superconscious.

WATER ELEMENT is Emotion, reflection, clarity--patterns of relationships; the subconscious.

WIND ELEMENT is Force brought into manifestation; thought, intellect; waking consciousness.

EARTH ELEMENT is Form; life force, limitless substance; the vehicle of Spirit and breath.

My very Soul is within the heart of my paintings, for it is the only vehicle through which I can visually translate the truth and depth of Life in all of its complex energies and emotions into a tangible object that can speak to another Soul. My work is a gateway to the site behind the human eye. In my life and art, I strive to make a statement of the great intensity and significance of being alive: To embody the contradictions of life and all of its opposing forces and entanglements.

My intent is to explore the relationship between the essence of the elements surrounding us in our natural environment, and how those energies and subtle forces affect us on an emotional and unconscious level as they permeate and meld within us. I'm inspired by the shapes and colors surrounding me, and moved by these elemental forces and unseen urges from within and without. 

My work is a purposeful mix of mediums and complex layers involving a process of disillusion, and then moving back together into form. Starting with charcoal, graphite, and oil stick, I sketch my loose designs and mark making onto the canvas. I then utilize fluid media, consisting of acrylic, latex, watercolor and ink to form the structure of the forms and their relationships. Using translucent and opaque oils, I create and organize the details of these forms on the canvas. A variety of graphite, colored pencil, pastel, interference and metallic pigments, as well as organic material may be added along the way or in the final details of the work.

This technique requires that I let go of thinking and planning and surrender to the silence of the raw creative force.  In the midst of painting, not even my breath matters. The life of the painting takes over completely and I breathe as one with the canvas. My paintings are an exploration of the rhythms of life and nature where the world behind my eyes is more authentic than the world in front of me. Color is synthesized into rhythm, sound and feeling onto a visually active and  emotive canvas. 

Where there is true silence and no words is where the soul speaks the loudest.  My path is to be a bridge across that silence; speaking the soul through the language of paint, color and form.  Few can put into words the path of the soul.  I do it through paint.  Although each final piece is primarily the essence of one dominant force, all are contained in each--the spirit of Fire, the emotion of Water, the mind of Wind, and the structure of Earth.  

“My work reflects the eternal cycles of creation, growth and expansion of our vast universe, and the never-ending cycles of my own human emotive experience. I live within the greatest masterpiece of all.  Creation itself is unsurpassed as a work of art...all works after it are but echoes of the original.”

 "Reality is only silence colored in."