Painting

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Red and Green Panel circa 1997

My earliest paintings were an attempt to merge my meditation practice with my creative process. This involved repetively folding sheets of paper with thin layers of paint to them and this is how my earliest images formed. I was continuously experimenting with process and eventually began transferring paint between sheets of paper. This process of adding and subtracting layers of paint, combined with some printmaking techniques became the source of the Karma Series. One sanskrit translation of the word karma means the end result of a series of actions and this accurately captured both the way I worked and the ideas I was pursuing at the time.

As I began to contemplate a new direction for my painting, I started a new series of paintings that were smaller, more deliberate and much more dependent on the process of transferring paint between panel. In some ways I actually considered print making, but the images were developed more organically. These paintings became the Meditation Series of which only a handful remain.

My most recent paintings have been an ongoing exploration of some questions that arose while I was working on the Karma Series. One of the key questions I became interested in was a simple one; when does a border or a boundary become an area and why? Of course this led to other questions and eventually formed the basis for my new series Bands.

In some ways I consider the content of images irrelevant. They are the result of certain ideas I am exploring through a set of methods that I have developed over time. The way I work is my focus. In this respect, my painting continues to be an extension of mindfulness where the moment is all that exists and each decision is made because it is the correct one that moment. The results tend to themselves.

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