As a contemporary artist, I work with the formal and abstract in my ceramic paintings. I am very curious about my world. Words and mathematics intrigue me, as do visual textures and patterns. I make art that speaks not about these idea elements that initially piqued my curiosity, or about the sources of my inspiration, but more about my interpretation of them: reduced, distilled and abstracted, finally becoming a visual essence of my original thought processes.

Like the Action Painters of the Abstract Expressionist movement my orientation is in process. My process, however, leaves the concerns of the Action Painters almost as soon as they are identified. The process that I am referring to is in my mind. It's the wandering down the path of an idea that I embrace. I like the term essence as it relates to the simplicity of expression. This process path leads me away from literalness toward complete abstraction. From it comes an image that is now its own unique, visual statement.