“Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My paintings are derivative of landscapes. While they qualify as Abstract Expressionist works, they are created with an intention to document a landscape, whether it be emotional or physical. Each painting contains the essence of places visited or felt. As a painter based in Los Angeles, the city bares a presence in my paintings. Rich colors and abstract shapes coalesce into an overall harmony, which are reminiscent of rip currents, mountains, city lights, and reflections in swimming pools.

My work centers around an infatuation with color: how it changes based on surrounding colors, lighting, intensity, and hue. Recently, I have been working with oil paintings on multiple layers of glass. I have been fascinated by the effect of pulling paintings apart to their individual layers and observing the way light and distance impact the paintings, creating a three dimensional effect. The result of this process seems to imbue the works with a life of their own. Colors shift and change based on the light during certain seasons and even at certain times of day. Blues emerge brightly from crimson layered glass during mid-day and recede quietly back into the red background in the evening. The drama created by interplay of time and color allows a viewer the sensation of renewal and a range of visual diversity housed in a single painting. Overlaps created by the multiple layers of transparent color in the glass paintings provide spontaneous variations of color and intensity.