I think of myself as a traditional artist working with oil on canvas. Although most of my paintings are rectangular, I have been experimenting with multiple canvases of different shapes. I have also been making collages on paper and other surfaces. For the collages I use photos, old drawings and paintings on paper, and art reproductions. The photos and reproductions add a level of representational content to my otherwise abstract work.

I generally do not have a specific idea when I begin a piece. I start with a color or shape and wait to see where the artwork takes me, if it means painting over areas I love. I sometimes feel a need for a specific image or subject which may appear, evolve and disappear during the course of the work. The subject or thing needs to communicate a specific emotion to me.

I am happiest when the images I create surprise me. I sometimes think of my paintings as a meditation of opposites: form and chaos, abstract and concrete, emotional and dispassionate, dark and light, good and evil. In the same vein, I want structure that is also fluid and spontaneous. This meditation between structure and fluidity has kept me going a long time. The peculiar and unique balance of those two forces in each painting defines my internal state at the moment. The resolution, for better or worse, is the artwork.