FAQ

What is the common thread in your work?

Seeking answers to questions of identity, place, situations, response, and purpose.
Why do styles and themes differ so much?

Different situations and attitudes at different times.
How can your work be identified as yours?

All have layers and or compositions emphasizing the surface, edges, and/or shape, to keep the viewer aware of the tension between the illusion of space or figure/shape and the reality of the object that is a painted surface...
Why do some pictures seem to represent people or objects, and others seem just colors and textures like meaningless patterns?

Just as the Creator sometimes makes life easy and sometimes harder, to encourage and test responses…..people find it easier to accept what they can recognize as resembling familiar objects, but something outside of daily experience challenges the ability to respond by analyzing or discarding…. But if one looks long enough and intently enough at the grammatic tools of the artist, i.e. line, color, texture, shape, direction, tension, relationships, this “language” becomes the tool for discovering and understanding the depth of meaning in them. Developing the patience to learn to look carefully and learn to see heightens awareness of the thoughts and even sometimes the sense of humor or other emotions presented by the artist.