About

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
                                                                Henry David Thoreau

I’m often saying, “It’s my eye that leads me to paint…”  The reason I do art is that I am visually excited about the world around me.  I look at something I have seen but see it as never before.  As Martin Gayford writes, “….. you see things clearer and clearer and clearer still.  The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory…where it stays…it is transmitted by your hand.”  In painting, I find the sweetest expression…..not between book covers, waiting to be opened or hidden like gems,  waiting to be extracted, but open to the eye, sitting on an easel, hanging on a wall…available at a glance, drawing me in to experience deeply, living in my soul.