“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time,

but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order….

the continuous thread of revelation.”

Eudora Welty

My paintings are motivated by the images and experiences that signify evidence of time and change. Shadows on a wall, tar marks on the street, the colors of fallen leaves are just a few of the connections that enter into the studio.

The process continues with a mark, a color, a word, a journal page, a gesture. I am interested in allowing a relationship between intent and accident to unfold. Playing translucent and opaque layers of pigmented beeswax against each other, drawing, layering, covering up, sanding, and scraping leads to the discovery of the image.

The history of the process then becomes inseparable from the exploration, through image, of time and memory. The paintings become an abstract story that cannot be read literally. I am interested in “the not knowing”.