I am passionate about capturing mood and expression. Finding a pocket of light to create a feeling of peace and harmony, using gestural brushstrokes to create movement and energy, and playing with values and perspective to create depth and spirit.

I love using lots of beautiful colors, strange color combinations and a combination of blended brushwork and bold big strokes to create the mood of the painting. I am a figurative painter who is embracing a love of abstraction. Painting simple objects with unexpected color, light and focal points.  Focusing on sensitivity and movement of dancers in varying degrees of representation to abstraction. Playing with light and color to lead the eye to places of depth and dimension . Portraying people in portraits that are contemplative. 

My goal is to paint in the moment, feeling and embracing each step in the journey of creating a painting.

I paint with oil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel and incorporate a small amount of collage experimentation.