Statement

I have always been drawing. My childhood was spent in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains where I drew with coal on the rough surfaces of massive rocks. The wooded world still informs my work-the earthen raw materials, the scale of mark- making to the body. I create a visual language where the distance from the real world is great and sensibilities heightened.

I am compressing images from my life, the media and art, bringing them into a mythic place. In my studio practice I explore the relationship between precision and revelation. I work on linen and large paper with marble dust and pigments. My drawings are developed with somatic marks recording the act of drawing in multiple spontaneous moments over time. The omissions, the erasures, are as important as what is included. I bring into existence a world outside of linear time.