Studio
Where the work takes shape.
The studio is where an experience is slowly reduced — through color, proportion, layers and revision — until the painting can hold its own without explanation.
The process
I rarely begin with a fixed image of a finished painting. I begin with an experience, an idea about space, or a relationship between forms and colors that I want to understand more fully.
The work develops through successive layers. Proportions shift. Gradients are built and adjusted. Elements are added, reduced or allowed to disappear. The process is less about illustrating the original idea than finding the point at which the painting begins to carry the experience on its own.
I am drawn to reduction, but not emptiness. I am looking for the few relationships that matter — and for the emotional weight they can carry.
A way of seeing
Architecture shaped the way I learned to see. For decades, I worked with proportion, geometry, light, material and human experience in three dimensions. Painting is not architecture translated to canvas, but that way of thinking remains part of me.
In the studio, those instincts become more intuitive. Space can be implied rather than built. A line can establish distance. A gradient can hold light. A small change in proportion can alter the entire experience of a painting.
