The drawings are very much about process. They are created with washes and powered pigment blown onto linseed oil that encapsulates charcoal outlines of single or coupled forms, often human figures. The forms have a sense of mass and volume and at the same time they seem to dissolve and merge with the paper on which they are drawn.
Each drawing is made in a series of steps. The line drawing comes first. Then the paper is drenched with linseed oil. The linseed oil has a thick viscosity and crawls down the page. More lines are added. The color comes last and is powdered pigment blown onto the surface of the drawing. The color continues to dissolve and move for a short period of time. Even after the materials dry the drawing continues to evolve as the linseed oil ages and the colors darken.
The impulse for a drawing comes from my response to a form. In the large scale figures it is often an emotional quality that I perceive to be carried in the body. In organic forms, such as fruits and vegetables, it may be a simpler response to the animation I see in the form. Drawing is a direct way of expressing myself. The act of drawing connects me to my most human self and brings me fully into the present.
