After painting for years, it often seems that I am just beginning. The studio is a place for experimentation so things can go wrong. When I start a painting, I allow for multiple possibilities and ideas to compete but soon find myself working with color relationships and geometric forms. Initially, I will draw with the paint while color and composition continue to evolve throughout the process of making the painting, often by adding and smearing the paint layers. My previous works and works I have seen by other artists contribute to a meditation on the work as it progresses. In the end the painting is an effort to find, thru discovery and an unlimited series of choices, a chance to make something interesting happen. This is often thrilling and unexpected. Making order out of chaos with color relationships that have a personal expression and resonance for me. Usually, minimal geometric forms or architectural elements are part of the composition that produce colliding fields of color. It’s an exploration, a chromatic drama, and painterly form.