I started drawing when I was about four years old and have never really stopped.  I drew constantly in the margins of notebooks and school reports and it was always of people.  That's how I learned that I'm essentially a figurative painter.  Over time the figures evolved.  I became interested in human gesture and expression and its power to communicate.  Much later, as I learned about painting, I became interested in how color can evoke emotion.

These days, I paint whatever moves me, but I keep returning to the figure.  I often begin work by scribbling and playing with the materials.  Inevitably a figure or gesture occurs within the drawing that I find stirring.  From this I develop a composition.  Many of these figures come from myth and fairy tale.  I especially enjoy being drawn in to the process of telling their story.