Artist's Statement

My paintings find their source in observations of the external world, in my mind's eye, or in my subconscious; my id." The preceding three stimuli for each act of creation often overlap and you can find multiple sources in one painting. 
The first source is the most easily understood and forms the basis for most representational art, as seen in the painting "Early Spring". 
The second, the mind's eye, is the store of observed images which each of us has from throughout our lives. Abstract works using this source will have recognizable images but will distort and manipulate them into new visual experiences. A good example of painting from the mind's eye is "Early Spring Cubed". 
Finally, works from the id attempt to completely shut down the first two sources and rely totally on the stimuli from the unconscious coupled with an aesthetic reaction to the marks accumulating on the canvas. Works from the unconscious grow organically and, in their purest form, have no reference to the external world either observed or remembered as in "Early Spring Yellow and Blue"