My painting is an alchemic process.  For me, transforming the flat canvas into a three dimensional illusion brings the painting to life. I work with colors and tones as if through a magnifying glass, analyzing and expanding tiny differences in chromatic values to create radiant spatial fields.  When solo, the square format asserts a central motion forwards/backwards – when seen in pairs and sequences- there’s also a movement that gathers momentum through each painting.

I imagine how light and shadow move across and through surfaces, evoking varying densities and depths of field.  Colors have their own peculiar interactions with each other and I discover their possibilities while making the painting, continually adjusting the temperature and tonality of both grounds until the foreground reverberates with an illusion of light.

Recently, my work has expanded into sequences of paintings of the same size, in a tight edge to edge placement – where this light appears to move within a larger frame of reference – like the turning of the earth on its axis in relation to the sun  or the shifting colors and depths of the Caribbean ocean.  The role of each painting becomes a moment suspended, offering an experience almost like embodying and feeling light before it moves onto the next moment in the next painting.

This development is opening up many new reasons for bringing color and light into new configurations, inspired by and distilled from observed phenomena on the earth lit by the sun/moon.

June 2026