Sometimes it’s instantaneous, sometimes it takes days, weeks or years. I
search for colors and shapes that bring a feeling.
A lot of my work starts as a collage of cut paper pieces that I use as color
studies. This started years ago when I travelled all over the world for my
work as a creative director in advertising.
During all my years of travel, I started passing the time in airports and on flights by tearing bits of color pages out of magazines and gluing them into a notebook. Those were my first collages, and now, I return to them as inspiration for paintings. I love playing with the shapes and colors…having them clash and collide and finding their beautiful place.

The collages are the first step and then I start painting – large paintings – and playing with all the geometric shapes and colors. These paintings require discipline and coloring “inside the lines.” I can only do that for so long, and then I get the urge to use big, sweeping strokes and coloring “outside the lines.” These paintings are inspired by things I see in my garden and all around me. I love the “architecture” of flowers – the forms and shapes and colors – and I work to bring them to life in unexpected ways.