“When I first visited Taos in 1965 it immediately felt like home. This feeling remained with me and following several years of work and travel abroad, Taos finally became my home in 1976. This town and landscape reunited me with an aspect of those times in foreign lands where life was simpler and indeed much more basic. And so I settled here and began to pursue my work with the basic tool of my art school days ... the pencil.
For the past thirty years the pencil and the ensuing drawings have been the cornerstone of my work. Slow and labor intensive, these drawings have intrigued me, frustrated me, haunted me and challenged me to continue their pursuit. They began as windows and doorways, moved to more linear designs trying to capture the influence of light on a particular surface, changed into organic forms and are now concentrating on the voluptuous forms of the female figure. These current drawings are responses to patterns and markings made by tidal flows and cloud formations.
For relief from the many layers of circular motion of the drawings, I turn to other media ... waxes, acrylics, pastels ... materials that lend to more rapid application and quicker results. The color is mostly intense ... mostly cool ... sometimes remembrances of past travels and voyages. My work remains abstract, nonobjective for the most part ... something that challenges me and continues to give me extraordinary pleasure.”