My designs emerge from my soul and intuition—my sense of wonder about the natural world. My most recent abstract works explore energy and movement in the style of organic abstraction and gestural landscape. Some bring an atmospheric quality while others convey the same dynamic flow found in wood grains, veins and transparent layers in natural stone, or patterns left in a creek bed when the water ebbs.

I practice in several styles and find that one teaches the next. I began with abstract acrylics, then was drawn toward gestural landscapes. Expanding to work with encaustics introduced a biomorphic quality across all my paintings. In either medium, color, texture, and movement are the primary elements in my designs. All my pieces contain dozens of layers rich with understory. In my abstracts, I begin with a sense of play, often with no initial intent beyond exploring a color. I begin with a sense of play, then stand back to adjust guided by principles of design.