My painting emerges from dreams, observation, and the unconscious.
I work abstractly, using color, shape, and spatial relationships to explore what exists beneath images—forms that are felt rather than seen. Abstraction allows me to work directly with essence, without reliance on representation or narrative.
My process is intuitive and physical. I build surfaces through layering, erasure, and disruption, using palette knives, hard-edged tools, and my hands alongside brushes. Rather than seeking resolution, I’m interested in how a painting can remain open—part object, part event, part memory.
The work treats landscape not as a view, but as a condition: spaces shaped by weather, time, and sustained attention. These paintings offer a place to linger inside ambiguity, sensation, and quiet tension.
Artist Background
My education in painting has been informal, sustained, and deeply personal. I grew up in an artistic household, observing my father’s serious abstract painting practice from an early age. He studied with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the values of that time—attention to structure, openness to process, and belief in painting as a way of thinking—formed an early foundation for me.
Rather than pursuing a conventional academic path, I’ve learned by looking closely: at paintings, at landscapes, and at the act of painting itself. Over the years, I’ve continued to develop my work through sustained studio practice, direct engagement with paintings in museums and galleries, and selected workshops with artists whose work I respect. These include Wolf Kahn, from whom I deepened my understanding of how color can carry emotion and spatial weight, and others who reinforced the importance of patience, restraint, and allowing surfaces to evolve over time.
My visual language has been shaped by a long engagement with painters such as Pierre Bonnard, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Philip Guston, Richard Diebenkorn, and Wolf Kahn—artists who balance intuition with structure and allow feeling to emerge through disciplined means. I continue to learn through looking, working, and testing the limits of what painting can hold.
The paintings shown here reflect my current studio focus and ongoing inquiry into abstraction as a way of sensing, rather than describing, the world.
