For me, applying liquid paint to canvas is a commitment I found limiting, as I continually study, examine and contemplate how shapes, patterns and colors may be interpreted differently, and how their interactions with colors on other layers can change the personality of the work. Since 1988, I have created exclusively as a digital painter exploring color-form relationships to realize my ideas, as my processes and my creative vision.

The computer exists within my process as the canvas, brushes, and paint. I ask nothing more of the digital side except to continue to allow me opportunities to study the fundamental elements of form and pattern, color and light in various ways. My works are the result of conceptual experimentation of these elements, each reacting with the other, as a fluid composition where there are no commitments until every aspect of every visual element and its attributes are considered.

I see music. I hear color. I feel space.

My entire life has revolved around music. When there is music, I see it. It comes to me as a stream of colors, textures, patterns, and forms. Music shapes a cinematic storyline in my mind that transports me to faraway places. It allows me to travel to unknown spaces where there may be familiarity or strangeness. I never know where I will go, and the same music transports me to different places each time, as if I were experiencing the music for the first time. Where there is color, I hear it. Every color has its own frequency of vibration. Hearing these unique oscillations of color is how I combine each into a new sound, and every color sound can be matched melodically, harmoniously, or dissonantly. Hearing color is a magically precise element of design that I can integrate with seeing music to paint symphonic compositions I overlay onto the emotion of form. Spatial constructs are forms, and forms are emotional and spiritual. I feel space. It moves me in relational conversation, offering thoughts on darkness and light, openness and privacy, honesty, and embellishment. It becomes exciting to stir in it, to feel inspired, energized, and motivated. The ambiguity of space can be unsettling and anxious. Feeling, as energized by the initiatives of space are the platform for color and music to align, making artful brushstrokes of meaning and consequence.

When I draw a line, it represents a “Self-Validating Moment. Each line re-establishes my reality and existence. I did that. That was me that drew that line. Therefore, I exist, and my art is my reality. Forty years as an architect, and I still need to feel that energy the line gives me. When I draw a line, it represents defining space. Even as my heart, my drive, and my passion were completely gone from my being an architect. There was literally nothing left inside me that cared about it. It was like letting go of the rope holding the boat at dock, and watching it just drift away silently… The architect lives on.