Abstraction is a vehicle for exploring my spiritual experience of nature and its tranquility. Drawing inspiration from the forests, fields, and ponds surrounding me, my work is informed by the energy and rhythms of the natural world. Nature perseveres and experiments. It relentlessly unfurls. It is spontaneous, unpredictable, and subject to chance encounters. These same improvisational processes are essential in my own work. 

When I approach my work, I aim to keep my mind as empty as possible to feel my way into drawing. I draw with graphite over and over, then I erase most of it. I am left with traces of information and the remnants of shapes, which inform the next steps in my process. I use residual markings as a reference to incorporate new lines and shapes. I take something away, I put something back, and I wait. 

In my recent work, I assemble curving forms that abut and encircle one another, creating motion through interlocking relationships. Whether with soft pastel or oil paint, I apply subtle gradations of color to suggest movement and soften the interrelated forms' structure. Using this abstract language, I translate sensations of 'being' in an expansive landscape, a meadow, on a shoreline, or under an unobstructed sky.