Thanks for taking a look at my work. I hope you like it.  

I have to confess right up front that by day I’m an Electrical Engineer, the sort of person who designs the hardware inside your laptop or cell phone. The path to art was through high school mechanical drafting, schematic drawing, and doodling in meetings that were much too long. Living in Kirkland for twenty-five years surrounded by art and galleries helped.

This year I have experimented with less rigid forms, looking for something of the chaos of life. Along the way I've added latex enamel household paint to my toolkit of acrylics and oils. Sticks and fingers now also seem to be as handy as brushes from time to time.

Lately, I have been trying to express how perception and memory work using iconic representation of things, feelings, or events. These icons are placed on a roughly defined background. The separation of icons from background is intended to evoke the sense of cave paintings, a name I use as shorthand for many of the recent pieces. These pieces show an abstraction or deconstruction of a place or time or feeling stated in simple ways.

I have come to believe that there are two forces working together to create these pieces: the rational and the emotional. I’ve spent most of my engineering career in tune with the rational and have a good working relationship with it. It chooses the theme of each piece and handles technical bits like creating form and depth. The choice of how to explicitly compose and execute the piece comes from the emotional force that has found a way to express itself after all these years. It’s sneaky and never communicates directly but guides and motivates the movement of my hands.

If you find a theme running through what you see, let me know, it is still opaque to me. What will appear on canvas next is anybody’s guess and  I’m as interested in that as anyone.