"We can all look but only a few can SEE"

I paint because the urge to seize, control and expand feelings and sensations is always present.

The action of molding clay or drawing lines using a brush or pencil will easily replace words used to express happiness or sorrow. There is no better way.

An empty canvas or a formless lump of clay are scary; they are non-entities that need to be given life and character.

The arch of a fine eyebrow, the hesitant walk of an old man, a wind swept field, flashes of past events and faces seen, visions of people met, and light-life giving light, need to be seized and kept.

The abstract becomes a solid object to be touched and enjoyed.

Once a line appears and a shape takes form momentum is created, the process is under way.

A total understanding of the process escapes me. It is probably reflected in the hermetic quality I cannot overcome in some of my work. Definitely the result of things seen, people met and ideas that cannot be expressed any other way.

I think, if we need a label, that my work could be called "impressionist": intuition, observation and feelings are the ingredients that hold it all together.

My hope is that all that can "look" will also "see".