I felt a deep need to express myself and my circumstances through painting and writing. Eventually I came to a place of wanting to paint for its own sake and I chose abstracts as a vehicle to allow me to explore with color, light, and composition, to play with paint, squeezing and mixing luscious colors onto my palette and canvas. I'm not interested in the subject as I work, but in an abstract game with rules that allow me to ultimately dance with energy: emotional and spiritual. I enjoy the paradoxical edge of the surface skin of paint that alludes to a deeper reality that unifies it all. I want to express/allow freedom, joy, spirit.