I like to build compositions  by using letters as abstract shapes. As each painting develops, I find that I subjectively interpret my current experiences. This interpretation may or may not be evident.  The viewer can  bring his or own interpretations to the painting. The letters do not intentionally spell out words, but they can.
I start the painting with one letter in any color and I see what other letters I can make out of the first one or from the negative spaces in various colors. As I build, it often suggests a landscape to me and I add other elements to the work. I enjoy it as an intuitive process.

This year of 2020 has been most unusual. The Pandemic has affected everything  in our daily life, including  how we create. My expression of my own experience emerged gradually from not being able to paint at all and ended with  finding a new way to begin compositions. This series starts with the first experiences of the pandemic with facts as science was teaching us,  and ending with   finding hope in the vaccine, symbolized in the Christmas Star Dec 21, 2020.

 I  mixed  layered negative and positive space images of figures combined with natural subjects to explore the themes of man and woman in nature through time.

This project is an exploration of what I see and observe in nature and how it stirs the imagination.  My own backyard provides a lot of sources of nature in its infinite variety

I developed these paintings using high contrast images of faces and used various watercolor techniques and imagination to finish them.

Several visits to Bermuda, years apart, inspired these pieces.