The Top Tips Nearly Kiss
New Paintings
South Gallery
May 7 - 28, 2011

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Artist Statement

I am driven to paint in dialogue with a moment. I respond to the effects of sunshine, rain, cloud cover, snow, dusk, dawn, shadow and season. My work depends on the abundance of such everchanging natural elements visible in my studio. I attend to the specifics of a particular location, climate, and point in time. These conditions are fluid— the moments defined yet elusive.

The paint application I use has a tentative quality; compositional choices are simultaneously precarious, quick and decisive. Points of conviction, uncertainly, fatigue and precision are readable. It is important that Imake visible the discipline of painting.

My work emphasizes optical experience through economical use of form, perspective, surface, gestural direction, and colour. Using a restricted palette allows me to distil evocative visual results through colour interaction. Each colour requires something reciprocal within my paintings. Reciprocation is defined as an action that requires a counter action. Relationships between colours yield results that did not exist previously. I remain surprised and captivated by paint as a material and colour as an entity, because everything is approximate, based on experience, practice and results. The spatial and sensory focus I achieve through colour is as shifting as the conditions in my studio environment.