During the past three years I have explored the symbols and simplicity inherent
in the drawings of children, and have appropriated them into my paintings.
My paintings are gestural and figurative but also at times abstract.
I use a direct a la prima technique, applying paint quickly and intuitively.
My most recent subjects are portraiture.
Self-portraits are unusually different in likeliness to each other, and display a
variety of human feelings. I choose colors specifically and chromatically to
tessellate in special areas between the foreground and the background,
in order to render form without shadow and light. This technique is done by
matching colors together according to how they relate and appear optically.
I then try to incorporate simple figuration into the context.
