How can I be true?

My intent is to stay in my authentic and receptive expression. I try to let deeply go – so I can enter a spiritual and/or emotional dimension and share it with you.

I strive to capture the big picture and the subtle picture.  I want to discover the spirit of life in all things.  I try and find the movement in the subject, risk messing up, experiment with edges- so as to stay true.

To express my vision, my paintings don’t all have to be clearly defined or fast and expressive.  Some of my work is more representational and others lean towards abstraction. 

I love the gloppy feel of paint.  There is nothing like blending into the structure of things.  LIfe flourishes everywhere.  If it moves, I move.  Nothing is really still. All of us, plants, animals, people...rock, water, air, fire can be mirrors for each other.  

Why not celebrate it all?    

I practice dance improvisation.  Dancing in collaboration with others is a deep meditation.  It requires me to be internally and externally aware.  When I dance, my body is a paint brush and I am in touch with the other dancers—sculpting and being sculpted.    When I paint I am dancing—improvising with the other dancers—the trees, grasses, light, earth, the images and forms and gestures in my body and in the bodies around me.

I go back to the same locations.  I form a relationship with a place as I form relationships with the models who are my subjects.  A place is never the same for me once I paint it. I experience greater intimacy with all the beings I paint.

Photo by Jon Kersey