As a psychotherapist and former architect I’m interested in our inner and outer worlds, how we make sense of the world and find meaning in it, and how we bring ourselves to the world and create the world we inhabit. We are always engaging in acts of creation, even if what we create sometimes bores us in its repetitions or annoys us in its frustrations, so that we don’t even think of ourselves as agents in it’s making. Painting is for me a chance to express in one vocabulary what I am unable to say in another, and to find something that is alive in myself in the process.

Mostly I focus on more formal qualities while I work—line, composition, value and color—and try to find a resolution to the formal problems each painting presents. For me, a painting is partly the story of its own making—the sketch of an idea transformed in its composition, or something new discovered in the process of trying to salvage a piece I thought I had lost; and rarely, a work turns out in a way that feels right before I quite realize what I’ve done.

I am particularly fascinated with line, different qualities of line and how to capture some of those qualities at different scales (from a small line sketch to a painting) and on different surfaces (paper or canvas). My hope is that my work resonates with something deeper, and evokes however slightly some aspect of the textured and layered dimensions of our experience, what we are forever trying to find words to communicate. My impulse to do this is what inspires me to paint in the first place.