"My Still Life series paintings begin with tablescapes, florals, and collected objects that become explorations of color, shape, and movement."
Art Statement – Abstracted Still Life Series
In this series, I have begun using still life as a framework for painting. Flowers, vessels, fruit, and familiar household objects give me a point of departure, but they are not the intended destination. What interests me is the way color, shape, line, and space interact to create a painting with its own, unique visual presence.
My goal is to create paintings that feel both familiar and unexpected. I hope viewers are drawn in by recognizable forms, then stay to discover the relationships and abstractions. When I’ve done my job right, the subject becomes secondary to the experience of looking.