My work is primarily abstract, inspired by the natural world. I begin each painting with a person, object or experience in mind. The paintings are discovered within the process of making them, not mapped out beforehand. Intuition and chance balanced with real life observation come together to create psychological pictures that challenge the viewer by offering up a combination of abstract and representational elements while simultaneously revealing the history of how they are made, with some passages exposing the surface below while others hold a thick impasto of pigment and plaster. The end result is made up of swirling gesticulations of texture, form and color, scratched, dripped, and drawn, recording the rise and fall of energy and fierce physicality with which each piece is executed.