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I paint horses like most artists paint flowers....they are the muse in my connection to nature....Through them I play at inhabiting an animal that both inspires and exposes me....an animal who is a master of communication!

Much of this work is minimal, in the form of energetic impressions, in living color.

I try to refrain from being labeled an "equestrian" artist, however, because my art of expressing this equine form has always been more urbane, more dynamic, formless and full of the vivid colors and stylistic abstractions of modern art.

This has led me to experiment in the completely abstract realm, often large scale, as a personal journey into pure expressionist color and form.

Watching horses has always been as satisfying to me as drawing them. Their musculature and shape, what maintains balance for them as they move, whether slowly grazing across a field or spontaneously bucking on a spring morning. I think I digitize images in my brain somehow, and after I go home I pull out the drawing pads and start to work.

Often monochromatic; suggestive or interpretive, I am profoundly, energetically connected to them; they are my muse, my artistic language. Images distilled from my visual memory are imbued with my own distinct blend of form and abstract stylization. I use vibrant colors and dynamic shapes to tell my story.

In other works I feel seduced by the shapes and colors of nature. I feel I have become fascinated - possibly obsessed - with pure color and form. Both horizontal and vertical horizons; the sublime movement inherent in color; and the endless landscape that largely becomes self-portraiture.

In clay and sculpture the three-dimensional palette is a natural one for me; I feel I express a clarity not only through the complex equine anatomy, but about their highly sophisticated, emotive elements as well.
I create expressive modern art.

Color is an expansive communicator; shape gives it form and purpose, creating a shared language of subtlety, suggestive gestures, textured simplicity, color both subdued and bold. Articulating my own visual passion this way gives me a great sense of connectedness between the viewer and myself.