Artist Statement
I was brought up in Baltimore and for 25 years I made art furniture and sculpture. In 1996 my life changed when I moved to Provincetown Massachusetts where I began making oil paintings.
I moved to Taos, New Mexico in 2004, where the sky became the ocean. Both settings ushered me within to the vast sky and ocean that lives in all of us.
My paintings are an exploration of this expanse through light, line, the figure, and space, the energy fields of the body, stillness, music and color. The oil paintings are a bridging of the uncreated through the experiences of a human being expressed through the earth’s landscape, the inner terrains, and the human body.
My wood work and sculpture are more difficult to describe. They arise from a lyrical part of myself meeting a more practical nature.
I opened a new studio in late fall of 2010 and named it Waking Life Studio. From this site I post blogs on current studio woodworking and sculpture projects. www.wakinglifestudio.com
This slideshow of paintings was made by James Day of the Taos Center for the Arts. He used text that I provided.