Narrow Format...Keeping It Skinney
I use a narrow format to create movement either horizontally or vertically. I find square or squarish rectangles disorienting.


Painting
I am intrigued with exploring the formal aspects of watercolor painting such as the illusion of depth and perspective and the ability to achieve both with paint. My painting process begins by creating a shape and deciding what to do with that shape with color, brush strokes, application of paint, subject matter. I usually rotate the paper trying different positions. I use both brush, eyedropper and sharpened points..

Subject Matter
I consider my work Geometric-Abstract Expressionistic in that my emotions are portrayed in the manipulation of materials and images, color, line, and brush strokes..

Conceptual Considerations
I leave my works to be open to the interpretation of the viewer. My titles are arbitrary. I prefer to spark the viewer’s imagination.

Overall Goal
To gain control of the watercolor medium in all formal aspects with Expressionism as a means of visual interpretation. Brush strokes, mixing, various applications of paint to the surface. Achieving depth and emotion with this medium. To gain mastery over color and composition and form, and yet to allow for experimentation