MISSION STATEMENT

My heros love what paint does regardless of subject matter; Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Richard Serra, Robert Rauchenberg, William de Kooning, Richard Deibenkorn and Clyfford Still. They allowed for the paint to suggest a direction. I find pleasure in the arguments created from color combinations. The splatterers, the doodlers and sloppy scribblers interest me and I distrust too high a degree of finish. 

I want to let the paint do what it will although I still get in the way. I'm a better editor than inventor. I use the horizontal bands to contain or constrain the chaos beneath. 

In the past year the figure has mostly disappeared from the paintings. More than ever, the content I'm interested in comes from the relationship of the formal elements; color, line, shape and texture. To leave ruins from the original ideas, a line, a word or some color gives history or process to the piece.