From earliest childhood, in an environment of forced deprivation, mark making was my first language.  It is through mark making my story is told. 

If mark making is language, the use of color gives the language its voice.  Mark making is tactile, color is tonal and is subject to the impulses of sense memory.  The process is alchemical.  

The act of painting is inspired by the coming of each new day, because it opens with the possibility of contact with something beyond the self.

photo credit: Raymond Chorneau