ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“My favorite work has the intense irrational reality of a dream.   I am inspired by nature, life experiences, and by travels.   I work from memory of visual images and from the emotions that are created.   A sign over my painting table reads, ‘you can paint anything you want’, which gives me permission to paint fish in the sky or giant lizards in a coffeehouse or whatever I please.   An idea for the title of a painting may come to me even before I have a vision of what it is I want to to paint, as is often the case when the subject is humorous.   I paint with music playing, getting lost in the sounds and hues, and the elapsed time usually astounds me.”