I am driven by pure impulse, or perhaps an irresistible need, to translate mysterious inner worlds into frantic lines and bold color. Not for me the linear constraints of a rectangle or a frame. Instead I have crafted shapes, self-contained small planets cut from wooden panels and sanded into submission. 

It is a noisy and joyful fight. My pencils scratch and knives carve into the surface. Then I re-craft the form, scraping parts off and drawing afresh, layering color and new line atop the existing.

Intense past voyages have led me to create riveting human landscapes. Only recently I am moving towards a more purely abstract organic composition.