ARTIST STATEMENT: My paintings are a painterly colorfield abstraction. I want my work to be spacious, airy, and free; with simple and direct compositions that are gestural and clearly marked by my hand. It is the Colorfield painters, especially to Olitzky, Poons, Dzubas, Boxer, Morris, and Diebenkorn who have helped me to develop ideas of pictorial space, it's depths and volumes, and how gesture shapes that space, enhancing its rhythms and movements around and across the surface of the painting.