I paint because I bleed Alizarin Crimson. As a small child – third grade, to be exact – I painted a SUN into a SKY and CREATED A COLOR! I was amazed at how simply I could create a new color that wasn’t there before! I remain awe-struck, still, at this whenever I work-new discovery of color creation and juxtaposition. I’m excited to present to the viewer what color can do. My process is one of “reduction”; painting till the canvas is over-full of movement and connections (as I see the world’s confusion) then obliterating that world-chaos – removing extraneous marks – until the work and the discovery become a complete and orderly composition. As I would love the world to be; composed, organized. I am excited by the evolution of shapes and the discovery of how movement impacts each of these shapes to become cohesive.