My work distills formal elements gleaned from various source materials, including art history, historical archives and print media. Responding intuitively to these elements, I reorganize and repeat them onto canvas and paper, manipulating the lines and forms to establish new visual relationships. Layering, repetition, and tracing acknowledge in-between spaces that result in abstractions, the surfaces of which conceal the history of process beneath.
My work is not pre-visualized; the generative processes of drawing and painting influence the outcome. Sometimes I apply paint thinly as a wash of color and at other times I cover the surface with thick patches of paint. Both transparent and opaque layers build forms and I fragment and obscure these in the process. Solid, wide and narrow lines, as well as broken lines, suggest transitional spaces and objects within actual, imagined and psychological interiors.