About My Paintings

"It is rare for most people to use painting for its qualities of inner adventure and self-discovery, to paint purely for the process of exploration, not for the result."
	-- Michell Cassou

I had been painting abstracts for several years, brightly colored geometric objects hovering in various spacial relationships, when I chanced upon a workshop given by Michell Cassou and Stewart Cubley of The Painting Experience Studio. Their process of painting directly from feeling has completely captivated me and transformed my painting.

Sometimes, while I am painting, the experience can be totally meditative. It is like I am in a trance and I have no awareness of others in the room. It is me and the painting, and somehow, as if by magic, I manage not to collide with anyone as I move back and forth from paints to paper. At other times, the pain and sadness can be so intense that I will be in tears the entire time.

When I am painting, it is as if there is a force beyond me that is in control of the brush. I do not need to know where I am going, I only need the willingness to explore, the willingness to put the brush to paper.
And it is through this willingness that the paintings emerge.