Process

Paintings often begin with a light pencil drawing on blank paper. Line breaks up the space and creates composition for an underpainting. Some markings remain visible to the end of the painting, some are painted over entirely. Lines are sometimes brought back in the end with a new trace of pencil or oil pastel on top of dry paint. The play of colors can originate in glimpses of landscapes but is more usually pure abstraction during the process of applying paint. Collages bring color, texture, shape, and photography—often of the human body and the natural world—from paper, magazine, foil and other materials that are then combined with paint. Paint is often smeared and blended on paper with a paper towel rather than a brush. Nearly all works are acrylic on Rives BFK paper.