Much of my work has been inspired by a “sense of place”. My love for my home, the mountains and the places I have lived and experienced feed my creativity. From landscapes to interiors to my abstract work, there is often a reference to place, directly or symbolically.

By incorporating some of the decorative painting techniques from my past work, I enjoy exploiting the relationship between decoration and fine art. Using techniques from hand-crafted stencils and precision lines to more painterly brushstrokes and an artist's presence, I play with paint: discovering, layering, working and reworking, sometimes unexpectedly finding solutions. Despite years of formal training, I am often captivated by paint as the subject, in its varied viscous states. Starting with drawings, ideas, colors, measurements- it is not until spending time in the studio, in the zone, that resolutions start to reveal themselves.

Beyond exploring paint as subject, I am compelled by shape and form. Moving beyond the traditional rectangular framework of the canvas, I create shapes and compositions that expand the expected parameters of the two-dimensional plane.