First Saturday Open Studios

I am a visual artist who paints intuitively as a mode of expression. The act of creating art is often described as a dialogue involving a conversation between the artist and the work. My painting often speaks to me as to what it needs, essentially becoming a voice that may influence its direction.

My colourful and fluid abstract paintings represent a fascination with the chaos in one's life, no matter how carefully planned.  Working with acrylic paint and ink I surrender to the paint/ink to 'do its own thing' and have authority, layer upon layer, creating organic forms. I often draw into the painting making unconscious marks that express feelings and connection in a tangible way. The intuitive, bold, and energetic paintings are a synergistic process of letting go, then transforming the spontaneous gestural abstractions into images of significance. I love the compelling process of bringing the uninhibited, undefined, and indescribable, into physical form.