As a painter I set up systems within which the outcomes of experimentation lead me through my practice. My art process makes use of a variety of premises, spatial or suggestive forms, as a basis for inference. What unfolds through each investigation is an interplay between the act of directing and then following and then imposing and then finding until the balance of the intuitive and the conceived reaches its completion. My compositions are dynamic, the rhythm of the process apparent, drawing the eye from point to point. Structure is defined through shape, movement or direction. I am interested in color as an activator of response and form as a way of alluding to the familiar. There is a kind of grouping that occurs in my work, a repetition of symbols seeking through the repetition to find meaning. I use abstraction to evoke a liminal experience, to convey that which is simultaneously unknown and recognized. There is a relationship to the landscape, but it is an awe enveloped primal landscape, a remaking of my memories not hard solid reality but something full of wonder. There is an asking for transcendence, a seeking to find what I don't understand in words. The act of painting has for me something of ritual, it is a struggle against conceptual knowledge, an investigation of momentary glimpses and a process through which my experiences are transformed.