ARTIST STATEMENT

There is a ritual that for me is essential to my creative process. It begins with my practice of Open Heart Meditation, during which I am able to let go of all negative emotions and burdens: going deeper into the core, purity and essence of my spiritual heart and true self. The result is a deep, purely joyful state which allows for every creative possibility.

As I approach the canvas, I renew my relationship with my tools— my extension. Now, nothing else matters.  I begin mixing paint colors intuitively, not knowing exactly what I am seeking, but eventually arrive at the coloristic destination to which I am drawn.

My method is best described as unknowing yet deliberate, organic but structured. As the colors bathe the entire surface in a way that at times seems directed by their own free will, a heartfelt relationship with the work begins to deepen. And then finally, somehow, the complete and true essence of the work reveals itself to me, often for the first time making sense, and assuring me that this journey is complete.

As these explorations give me the opportunity to dive deeper and trust more, my hope is to access the common threads that connect us and bring us closer to our hearts. It is important to me that in this increasingly complicated, distracting, and chaotic world in which we live, a viewer would sense the simple, light, and joyful form of expression that I have chosen, and from which these artworks were created.