Water and Bloom

In this body of work, I continue to explore how color can be pushed, texture created, and essentially different passages of paint can be brought into unity. It is also about surrender and allowing: I lean into limitations in palette using no more than two, often one color, and by using smooth, non-absorbent panels, synthetic paper or raw, absorbent canvas, I let the surface dictate much of what unfolds. The process is both intuitive and meditative. Using breath, hair dryers, and gravity, I guide the fluid paint as it pools beside thicker gestures. Though the results may appear simple, the work requires deep focus. An alert surrender. Allowing the paint to move as it will and the ground to receive it as it may. Each piece becomes an act of yielding and discovery, a distillation of form and essence. My hope is that these paintings serve as thresholds inviting us inward, toward stillness and self-reflection.