Throughout my career I have been interested primarily in the drawing process and the energizing immediacy I feel when the medium contacts the surface. While I work with a variety of materials, I have preferences for media which allow for spontaneity– charcoal, graphite, pastel, colored pencil, and ink on Stonehenge or Lanaquarelle paper. The negative space of the paper plane figures prominently as I explore the relationships between the marks from my personal vocabulary, each drawing becoming a choreography of shapes, gestural lines, rubbings, traces, erasures. I approach my work by simply beginning with marks and/or shapes, always allowing the process to prevail.
The primary reference in my work is landscape, no doubt a result of growing up on the plains of Texas where there is a constant awareness of the horizon. I am also stimulated by aerial views , the energy of the urban landscape, feelings and states of mind, as well as by contemplation about weather and astronomical phenomena. From these interests my work evolves in various series as my focus shifts.