My process involves scraping, drawing, rearranging and changing or even obliterating until it feels right. Some pieces are sanded back to an unrecoginizable surface then ‘ recovered ‘ through re-painting. It is this recovery that interestes me. Both collectively and personally the tendancy to react instantly to the world outside and by-pass opportunity for inner reflection is re-enforced culturally and techologically. Working abstractly creates the space for reflection both mine and the viewers. By allowing the painting to evolve along an intuitive path I Iearn  about the mechanics of thick and thin paint and excavate layers of potential meanings or responses that come to my conscious mind while I paint. The painting starts often as a black ink sketch very small in my sketch book which is also filled with recipes, shopping lists and titles, quotes and poetry. I find that not thinking too hard about the work in the beginning usually leads to a more resolved sense in the finished work. I know when a work is done beause it sits right with me. I dont have the urge to go in and adjust this or that. This process is slow not fast and the time allowed for the painting  to simmer is as much part of the process as the actual act of painting

The titles of  these paintings refer to my memories of places and deep impressions of my physical experience of nature  - fleeting moments recovered or recreated from a circumstance in time. In some cases the titles borrow from the language of computers to address the inner experience of processing memory,  time and present experience.

Ultimately I am left with more questions and more work..