STATEMENT

I was an abstract painter, but my love of the visible world compelled me to portray it
in other work, which I kept separate.  Abstraction didn’t satisfy my delight in seeing. 
Alternatively, I couldn’t simply paint the world the way it appears to me, glorious 
though it is, as a single reality.  Eventually I came to realize that this duality was not a 
dilemma, but was in fact my subject matter.  A different kind of resolution could come 
from layering different ways of imagining reality rather than reconciling them. I 
gradually developed my present method on painting of layers of transparent acrylic 
sheet.  These sheets enable me to juxtapose elements of visual material either in 
discrete layers or more intuitively so that passages float upward toward the surface 
influencing successive layers of paint.