"Maybe the desire to make something beautiful

  is the piece of God that is inside each of us."

--excerpt from Mary Oliver's poem "Franz Marc's Blue Horses"

My intention is to create images that draw the viewer into a mysterious but somehow familiar world through the universal language of proportion, balance, and harmony. I create layered images of opaque and transparent acrylic paints.  My process is similar to jazz improvization:  each layer is a response to the color, line, rhythm, texture, and shapes of the previous layer.  I may use crayons, charcoal, brushes, rollers, fingers, and stencils to develop the layers.
 

In my current work, I am exploring the use of mono print techniques, collage, and oil paints. In the last year I also began working on raw unstretched canvas. The finished unframed work is hung from dowels like a tapestry. Surface Gallery in Colorado Springs will show my tapestries in November 2025.