A hand holds a small (4 cm wide) metal spatula, with a metal bar on the right side of it, and prepares to use it to pull paint down a sheet of white paper.

Paintings

I paint because it feels good to slowly, very slowly, get to know, to build up a deeper feeling and understanding, of the paints, the papers, the spatulas, the brushes - so that I slowly, very slowly, gain more influence over what the end-results, the finished paintings, look like.

And because of the excitement and tension of also, within that context and constraint, somehow deciding when the paintings are finished, when I actually like – or don't think I can improve the aesthetic impact – the works.

While the paintings are abstract, I suspect that the pleasure I find in noticing patterns around us - which I sometimes photograph - informs my painting aesthetic.

Abstract painting, mottled layer of white pulled over background of vertical fields of black, gold, orange, and blue.

Bright glowing vertical fields of blue, orange, and yellow overlayed with white sections with varying transparency.

Abstract painting with a dark background of reds and blues, dominated by a vertical field of white and blue pulled over the right side.