My work is as much about the paint as my subject, which is always inherently personal. Although it was born from classical roots, I’ve always felt the need to explore and change, and admit to indulging my creative impulses.

The babies series was inspired by painters of the Northern Renaissance and were painted with oils on panel or canvas using many layers beginning with a grisaille underpainting. The surfaces are smooth. Movement and emotion are displayed through facial expression and body gesture. In the women and other work, while incorporating methods internalized over time, the paintings use more expressive brushwork, are less realistic, use more saturated color, thicker paint application, and lean toward abstraction.

My process involves building from the inside to the outside. In the beginning, there is a space around which the foundation is built as with the foundation of a house or the interior of a body. The painting is developed in layers that are often covered up, sometimes exposed and repainted in one stage after another until I reach the surface.