Art for me is an expression of both seen and unseen worlds. A survey of the periphery as images emerge from the fog of dreams. I am interested in the subtlety of an unplanned line, and defining the erotic within closed systems. I paint most often in shades of grey because they speak the language of the subconscious, and the silent and rare quality of early film and photography.

Although I have classical training in oil painting, I prefer the subtle and unassuming nature of watercolor, mixed media and found object. As my work has evolved I have taken on a 'less is more' approach, and in watercolor I enjoy the push and pull of the medium. Riveting detail can be achieved among the pools and eddies of the artists intended subject, only to be washed away into an unpredictable flow; pigments settling in the edges of consciousness, a thin film covering great depths.

My various inspirations include Ingres, Max Earnst, Monica Magoli, Francesca Woodman, Juliet Margaret Cameron and little known surrealist Claude Cahun.....Cave Paintings, Buster Keaton, Becket on Proust, Rene Clair and the Peabody Museum to name a few!

Photography is often a point of departure for me and I look for more in a photograph then a purely visual reading can reveal. I search for ghosts. My paintings are a record of this searching.

A photograph as an object holds memory both historic and personal; eyes peering out over the catastrophe of a century or the lone trajectory through space and time, of a single human life.