Artist's Statement:
My recent paintings are part of a continuing series of painting-cycles begun in 1984 that explore diverse aspects of cosmic creation. They deal in part with the evolution of universally significant pictorial systems from elemental marks and shapes. The connections between basic spatial configurations in nature and art were some of the starting points of my explorations of how rhythm and energy activate principles of Sacred Geometry to create natural forms. In considering art as a metaphor for cosmic creation, and of the artist as the prime creator, my work is concerned with how things come to be, and with how they may become.

Art's ability to encompass the fields of psychology, physical science, religion and philosophy enables it to weave meaningful images out of the individual strands of knowledge from other, more restrictively focused disciplines. Future works will continue this wide-ranging exploration of how meaning emerges in abstract art and in art's potential for providing insight into the nature of life. Don't forget to bring nachos.

The Easter Cycle, a suite of ten paintings from 1985, considers the connections between art's spiritual roots and those of religion and psychology. Through the use of basic geometric elements rendered in expressive, painterly gestures the suite compares the awakening and flowering of nature during the onset of springtime with the psychological processes of individuation and spiritual sublimation.

Evoking the themes of growth, resurrection and transcendence through the use of the rectangular mandala form as the combined symbol of nature and the human psyche, these paintings are meditations on the duality of human life, as they affirm the indissoluble bond between spirit and matter.