“I have gravitated toward making grids for the past few years. In doing art, when I feel the nudge to go in a certain direction I go there, but I have been wondering why this particular orientation of mine persists. I may have not answered this question, but in attempting to do so I have come to appreciate better the effect of one’s environment on what one makes. Walking in a North American city with its insistent grids, its repetition of rectangles, is bound to inculcate a quadrilateral bias in one’s mental image bank.”
“Making abstract art was not easy for me. My previous work was in realism. I chose to move to abstract because I fell in love with the work of the American abstract expressionists. I chose it because it challenges me. I love how colours play off of each other; I love texture and immediacy. The constant trial of getting this down on paper or panel that both satisfies and confounds me.
I work in a variety of mediums, cold wax and oil, pastels or oil sticks. I like the unpredictable outcomes that usually usurp my vision of what the work was to be, but usually can bring me better surprises.”
