I have had a longstanding interest in working with gestural brushstrokes creating a compressed space. The marks and forms in these paintings are layered in space, that is they move back and forth in space, and to a considerable degree they have been oriented flat to the plane.

I have recently been expanding that involvement by developing a field of volumetric space in which planes are juxtaposed, forming a gestural interaction. The orientation of these more or less geographic planes emphasize a diagonal z-axis relationship to the picture plane through their contrasting positions.

The dynamic is established through size relationships of the geometric planes as well as their varied axis, which activate the field (or volumetric space) formed on the canvas as a whole.

This establishes a pictorial space that is both defined through gestural atmospheric forms and more clearly delineated geometrically-derived forms that are activated by actual and implied diagonal forces.

My over-riding concerns are to create a pictorial space inculcating the life associated with depth and movement, color and light.

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