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"Meanings are often slippery, they come and they go. They slide between the lines of words that try to contain. Painting is more about the act of making the work, the acceptance of uncertainty. Painting is trusting instinct, to plunge into the unknown and allow the process to carry the work and unveil the rhythm of the paint.

"Painting is stepping into the present moment. This process is about going inward as well as opening out. It is a journey toward something about myself - a search for possibilities and perhaps hope. Like pages in a book, each painting leads to and informs the next. I try not to judge, but to see and to know when and where the painting has settled into itself.

 "This group of paintings evolved from many years of drawing the figure. Over time, the figure was painted out and the field came into the foreground. While the landscape was always there, the process and expressive quality of the paint take precedent over any depiction of any particular place. I have lived by the ocean for 18 years and I am drawn to open space. The unique qualities of light that reflect off the sea and in expansive space spill in to paintings."