My work has always been about color and physicality. When I began making art in the 1960’s, I was a figure painter. I loved taking paint, sometimes several colors at a time on the brush, and laying it down on canvas. Informed by principles of abstract impressionism, my paintings were about energy and process. You could see and feel the immediacy of the surface textures.

Recently, I’ve been creating what I have come to describe as “felted paintings.” I’ve been developing and refining a process whereby I lay down color, this time with yarn. While the medium is different, the process feels closely linked to my earlier work with figure painting. As with painting, I love the process of being carried away by the franticness of the creating, and the color and the texture of the medium. At the heart of these recent explorations is the play with color and the physical presence of the yarn.

The work and the process are intuitive, emotional, and created with the energy of the moment. I often work from a sketch in my mind’s eye, but allow the process to dictate where the work will go. Neither constrained nor censored, the process itself is about pursuing a sense of freedom. It is my hope that the finished pieces enable viewers to experience this freedom as well. Someone said I work by association and I believe that to be true. While working my mind travels to other possibilities of exploration. There is a tension between the moment of what is taking place within the piece and what will evolve from it. Undoubtedly the work will change, as it should, and I look forward to that and seeing and experiencing where it will take me.